The painting shows the experience of nature as the central experience of the citizen of the 19th century. The desire for silence, harmony and release from an actuality experienced as problematic that comes up in the Romantic era is expressed by the two men in the painting that are shown seen from the back. By contemplating the moon the depicted persons feel themselves united with the universe. The infinity of nature, symbolised in the moon, and the finitude of human strives symbolised by the deracinated oak, become clear to the spectator while regarding the painting. In the beauty of the man made art the beauty of God’s creation of nature becomes visible. The landscape as space of emotionality and experience opens step by step, through the visible, the secrets that lie hidden in nature. By this way the art of the Romantics, through her subjective symbolism, offers the spectator a universal concept of the world.
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