Beuys depicted mountainous regions as a way to represent boundlessness and freedom.

“The most important thing for me … [in the biblical story of the Sermon on the Mount] is that a crucial indication is given of the possibility open to man … That element of discussion at the summit is important for me. The summit is always the highest in man, in his inwardness. It is the absolute peak, the top.” – Joseph Beuys in Conversation with Friedhelm Mennekes’, in Mennekes 1986, p.32.