Paul Klee (1879 - 1940)

This picture looks almost like a late memory of Klee's famous journey to Tunis, which he embarked on in August 1914 with Macke and Louis Moilliet. It immediately conjures up the tree-filled landscape of the title. In the midst of this rhythmic distribution of trees, we see a camel. The features of the landscape show through its body, connecting with it. The combination of dots and lines is reminiscent of musical notation. The allusion to music is strengthened by the rhythmic interplay of lines and forms. In the work of Paul Klee, who was himself an outstanding violinist, there are many correspondences to music, and in some works he was clearly inspired by the visual appearance on the page of musical scores or by individual symbols in musical notation. ___