Alpine panorama
An alpine panorama or alpine backdrop is a relief-like, artistically drawn or photographic representation of an alpine mountain landscape, which is mostly made for tourism purposes and shows the mountains from the perspective of the respective holiday region. Often a view of the Alps is chosen from a vantage point in the foothills of the Alps such as the Allgäu or from mountains of an adjacent low mountain range such as the southern Black Forest ; this view is also called the Alpine chain, Alpine view or Alpine range.
Drawings and lithographs
A lot of graphic skills as well as a good insight into cartography and landform science are required to create such perspectives . Because the highest mountain peaks are not allowed to cover the valleys , but must stand out clearly. On the other hand, since the mountains in the background would appear too small, you have to "enlarge" them without distorting the cardinal points too much. The vegetation of the area, the rock drawings and realistic shadow effects at different times of the day and seasons are difficult challenges for the graphic designer or artist .
In Austria , Germany and Switzerland , the direction of the relief maps and panoramas is mostly to the south , because most of the holiday regions are north of the Alps . In the case of areas south of the main Alpine ridge, on the other hand, the direction north predominates.
Individual works in this genre not only depict individual mountain ranges , but also the Alps as a whole, or regionally separated into the areas of Eastern Alps , Western Alps or Southern Alps . The best-known work of this kind is the “Alpine panorama from Marseille to Vienna” by the South Tyrolean graphic artist and cartographer Hans Oberbacher (around 1950).
photography
Photographs can show views of several neighboring mountains up to some mountain groups in the Alps. Through the digital photography offers new possibilities of image editing such as stitching and facilitated subsequent labeling.
See also
literature
- Eugen Hüsler : Alpine panoramas . Verlag Bruckmann, Munich 2005. ISBN 978-3-7654-4184-4 (Hüsler shows different generations of alpine panoramas in comparison).
Web links
- www.alpen-panoramen.de. Collection of labeled panoramas from the entire Alpine region. Retrieved August 18, 2020 .
- Panoramas. In: Working Group for Comparative High Mountain Research. Accessed on August 18, 2020 .
- Drama about the panorama. Exhibition in the erbe culture area sölden 2018. Accessed on August 18, 2020 .