For a long time, the artist Ulrich Moritz was a hidden gem. When seven writers paid tribute to him in a magazine in March 2012, viewers of his wondrous art rubbed their eyes in disbelief: "No one has ever created such deceptive effects with the sharp tip of the hardest colored pencils," marveled Anita Albus, while Sibylle Lewitscharoff found it "charming in the delicacy of its execution." Hans Magnus Enzensberger recognized "humility and sovereignty" in the artist's drawings. In this book, everyone can witness the virtuosity of the colored pencil with which Ulrich Moritz enchants shells, lichens, and stones, as well as landscapes—accompanied by pointed texts from two and a half centuries that the artist himself selected and paired with his images.