Untitled (Aare landscape), 1900
The five-panelled screen «Ohne Titel (Aarelandschaft)» [Untitled (Aare Landscape)] of 1900 gives us a view of the River Aare landscape outside Bern, a landscape Paul Klee loved above all others.
The place was known to him from his early years; as a child, he often felt that adults misunderstood him, and sought sanctuary in the valley of the Aare. A series of technically extremely mature sketches and drawings by the seventeen-year-old were the fruit of this early, intense experience of nature and the landscape, with titles such as «Die Aare bei der Hunzikenbrücke» [The Aare near the Hunzikenbrücke] and «Aus der Elfenau» [View from the Elfenau], both from 1896.
