Berglandschap met waterval en wandelaar 1810 - 1817

Frédéric Théodore Faber etched this landscape with waterfall and wanderer around the early 19th century. The Wanderer motif, a lone figure set against the vastness of nature, speaks volumes. Here, the figure is a minute presence set against the grandeur of the mountains. It evokes Romanticism's fascination with the sublime, a concept that finds the awe-inspiring and terrifying aspects of nature intertwined. Consider Caspar David Friedrich's wanderers atop misty peaks. Similarly, here we see a figure dwarfed, yet somehow connected, to the landscape. This symbol has ancient roots, echoing the solitary seeker in epic poems and myths, and resurfaces in modern cinema as the lone astronaut adrift in space. This motif taps into the deep psychological undercurrents. The individual psyche yearns to reconcile itself to the infinite and eternal. It's a symbol that transcends the confines of time and reappears, transformed, in each new era.