view
Originally, a view referred to the "view outside", in a figurative sense also the "into the future". The composition was coined around 1700 in the garden art from the older concept of the view.
The preoccupation with the view as a view of and into the (distant) landscape and its perception was a frequent motif in literature and painting during the German Romantic period . For example, Friedrich Hölderlin used a view in the title of several of his poems. Even today, views can be found in compounds such as viewpoint , viewing platform or viewing tower .
A future perspective - which can be promising or hopeless - or its prediction is also known today as a forecast .
Web links
Wiktionary: View - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations
References and footnotes
- ^ After Duden "Etymologie" - dictionary of origin of the German language , 2nd edition, Dudenverlag, 1989