August Kopisch was a painter, poet, discoverer and inventor, according to the subtitle of a Kopisch exhibition in Berlin's National Gallery. As a poet, he is still known today as the author of the poem Die Heinzelmännchen von Köln. As a painter, Kopisch had a preference for psychedelic light effects. In the view of the ruins of the Greek theatre in Taormina with Mount Etna on the horizon, the colour spectrum of the sky ranges from an intense blue in all shades through turquoise and yellow to red-orange. On the left on the rock, the shepherd plays his evening song and a goat watches the scenery.