‘One eye sees, the other feels.’ – Paul Klee, born #OnThisDay 1879 🌃 Paul Klee was a giant of twentieth-century art, one of the great creative innovators of the time. Witty, inventive, magical, his paintings resist easy classification, cutting a radical figure in European modernism. His influence on abstraction can be seen in the works of Rothko, Miró and beyond. Klee’s painting 'Walpurgis Night' marks the transition from winter to spring, falling on the eve of the first of May. In folk tradition, witches would gather on the Brocken, the highest of the Harz Mountains, to perform rituals to ward off evil. The artist’s son Felix Klee said, ‘The ghostly scenes on the Brocken - from Goethe's Faust - often exerted a fascination on my father. At Easter 1923 we travelled from Wernigerode through the Harz Mountains to Braunschweig. The legendary traditions of this region and my father's assimilation of them are things I shall never forget. These I take to be the true source of this work!' 🌃 Paul Klee (1879–1940), Walpurgis Night, 1935