Gezicht over het Lauterbrunnendal met links top van de Jungfrau 1897 - 1924

This gelatin silver print shows the Lauterbrunnen Valley with the Jungfrau Mountain, and was captured by the Wehrli Brothers. The image has so much depth. It’s like your eye can follow the contours of the mountains and valleys all the way to the horizon line. I can imagine them standing there, cameras ready, trying to capture something of this majestic view, that you can never really fully grasp. It’s hard to know exactly when it was taken, but it has the feel of the late 19th or early 20th century. You know, I often wonder about artists like the Wehrli Brothers, who may not be household names but who were clearly dedicated to their craft. What were their influences? What were they hoping to communicate through their work? What other landscape artists of the period were they looking at? I love the way the light catches the mountaintops and casts shadows in the valleys. It really gives you a sense of the scale and grandeur of the landscape. In a way, artists are always in conversation with each other, across time and space.