Paul Klee Winterbild/Winter Picture

"If I may, let's think and talk about our Klee Picture, 'Winterbild' 1930, which you have chosen as a Christmas card.

  At first glance [in 'nachglühende Landschaft'], you can see similar motifs, but the color is a big difference!  After sunset, the landscape has a glowing warmth, in contrast to 'Winterbild,' which is covered in snow.  But under and above the snow, we can feel something living and everlasting that survives the cold winter.  You see even the exclamation mark'!'.  Something in the air.  It's a life!

  Klee has a tendency to depict contrasting elements and try to create a synthesis.  

He is a good balanced artist/human being."

Paul Klee.  nachglühende Landschaft (Landscape in Afterglow).  1930. 242.