Yearn Wanderer T-Shirt | The Faustian Longing for the Horizon

Around 1818 the German painter Caspar David Friedrich painted Wanderer above the Sea of Fog: a lone man on a rocky summit, his back to us, gazing out over a landscape he cannot reach. It became the icon of German Romanticism and its idea of Sehnsucht, a deep longing for whatever lies beyond the horizon. A century later the historian Oswald Spengler called this restless drive Faustian, after Goethe's Faust, the scholar who would sooner sell his soul than stop striving.

This design moves the wanderer to the Moon. An astronaut in a white suit plants one boot on a jagged lunar crag, back to the viewer, looking across gray plains toward a half-lit Earth hanging in the black sky. The same pose, the same longing, a much bigger horizon.

Choose your shirt

• Heavyweight: Comfort Colors 1717, 6.1 oz (206 g/m²) ring-spun cotton, garment-dyed for a soft, lived-in feel. Relaxed unisex fit; size down for a closer fit.
• Classic: Gildan 5000, 5.3 oz (180 g/m²) 100% cotton. Regular unisex fit. The same print, for less.

Printed to order: in the EU (Riga) for European orders, in the US for American ones.

Care: wash cold inside out, tumble dry low or hang dry, do not iron the print.