Wind Souls

The aesthetic focus on wind, understood today mainly as a valuable resource for green energy, has its roots in the 19th century, a period in which its dynamism was elevated as a characterizing presence in the landscape. We see this in works that attempt to depict it. Joachim Ritter (1903-1974), in his commentary on the German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt2 (1769-1859), author of Kosmos.