Winter Day, Shortly before Noon

In Winter Day, Shortly before Noon, a cosmic catastrophe looms. A fiery celestial body appears low over the house: The arrow hand of the tower clock notes the time as shortly before 12 noon, the hour of doom. The motif of the arrow is something Klee used in his pictures until 1924 to indicate the direction of the action. It became an inevitable sign of fate and the symbol of magical power. But later, Klee was to state in his teaching: “[.