Rihard Jakopič created a number of paintings with birch trees in 1902 and 1903, found in the outskirts of Škofja Loka about fifteen minutes walking distance towards Crngrob. Birches in Autumn is a synthesis of repetitions in diverse formats and had a special significance for the artist. He designed its frame himself and on its first showing at the exhibition in Salon Miethke in Vienna, in1904, it was purchased by the Ministry of Religion and Education and deposited in the collection of the Regional Museum for Carniola (today the National Museum of Slovenia). Jakopič reproduced a truly synesthetic experience of the motif in which the sense of sight stimulates other senses allowing the viewer to relive the painter’s sensations. He gave up the thick impasto and vivid colour. Instead, he used thinner paint applied with a palette knife and a tonal interval of green-to-ochre against a silver blue sky. He transports the viewer onto the slope with birches, bathed in the golden light of an autumn day and makes them aware of the waning warmth of the setting sun. The feelings of transition and evanescence overcome him and fill him with bittersweet longing for the luxury of the summer gone by. Central European and particularly Viennese criticism applied the term die Stimmung for this kind of creation of mood by an image, which was also instrumental in its acquisition by the state.