Bergige Landschaft mit ruhender Gestalt an einem Gewässer 

Franz Kobell created this landscape drawing with pen and brown ink. Kobell was a leading landscape artist during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. At the time, the prevailing attitude towards nature shifted from seeing it as a resource to viewing it as a source of spiritual and emotional experience. In this drawing, we see a rugged landscape with a body of water and a figure resting. The Romantic movement rejected the Enlightenment's emphasis on reason and celebrated emotion, intuition, and the beauty of the natural world. Artists sought to capture the awe-inspiring power and sublimity of nature in their works. Kobell's landscape drawing aligns with this sensibility, inviting viewers to contemplate the beauty and tranquility of the natural world. But who has access to this beauty and tranquility? In this idyllic landscape, we might also consider the lives and labors of those who were excluded from such leisurely contemplation.