Klee was discharged from military service in December, 1918 and in early 1919 he rented a studio in the Suresnes Castle in Munich. In April leftists took power in the city and Klee joined the Action Committee of Revolutionary Artists headed by Hans Richter. Within a couple of months, however, the right-wing Freikorps seized control and initiated widespread purges of those who had been sympathetic to progressive causes. Fearing for his life, Klee fled to Switzerland in June, 1919.

Klee's participation in the Munich revolution is reflected in some of his drawings and watercolors during this period. At the same time, however, he continued to explore nature and the landscape, developing his ideas of color.

A photo-certificate from Josef Helfenstein and Stefan Frey of the Paul Klee-Stiftung dated Bern, February 3, 1993 accompanies this watercolor.