'December snow.' Hand-painted watercolor calendar for December 1917 by Schima Martos. Particulates from a smoking kerosene lamp overspread the days of December, and are labeled 'December höra,' 'December snow.' The first five days or nights of the month show a couple at, sitting down to, or rising from a lamp-lit table. The rest of the month the nights are dark, other than four in which the quarter of the moon shows through a window, or Christmas, when the couple stands in the light of a Christmas tree.
December höraDecember snow2½ liter petroleum.
"Until now, I always managed to still my hunger in the end. (The eternal theme of the German nation.) . . .A package arrived from Wiessee; it contained raw carrots and an enormous beet."
Part of the diary entry of Paul Klee for February 20, 1917, during Germany's 'Turnip Winter.'
The Diaries of Paul Klee 1898-1918, Edited, with an Introduction by Felix Klee by Paul Klee, page 367, copyright © 1964 by the Regents of the University of California, publisher: University of California Press, publication date: 1968
1917-02-20, 1917, February, hunger, beet, food
