Beeld van de Heilige Anna aan de gevel van het Rathaus te Gernsbach

Geo Poggenbeek belongs to the late flowering of the Hague School. He depicted the Dutch landscape in paintings and watercolors in a dreamy tone reminiscent of Willem Maris and Anton Mauve. In his time, Poggenbeek was very successful with his atmospheric depictions of the Dutch landscape – often intimate places with cows or ducks by the side of a ditch, under the shelter of a grove. During the time he lived with his painter friend Nicolaas Bastert in Breukelen (1881–1887), he painted many river landscapes along the Vecht. He was a pupil of J.F.C. Scherrewitz.