Hügelige Landschaft, im Hintergrund aufziehende Wolken 

Victor Müller made this landscape drawing with graphite on paper sometime in the 19th century. The very qualities of graphite – its ready availability, modest cost, and responsiveness to pressure – lend themselves to studies like this one. Note how Müller coaxes tone and texture from the humble pencil. Dark lines describe the shapes of trees and hedgerows, while softer, smudged areas evoke distant hills and approaching clouds. The artist's hand moves across the paper, building up the image through countless small marks. In its own way, drawing is a type of labor, and the landscape here is clearly one that has been shaped by human work too. The fields and pastures speak to generations of cultivation, a visual record of human interaction with the earth. So, next time you see a drawing, consider the labor embedded in the work, and how materials shape what is possible. This approach helps us to see art not as separate from daily life, but deeply intertwined with it.