Camel (in Rhythmic Landscape with Trees)

Camel (in Rhythmic Landscape with Trees) (German: Kamel (in rhythmischer baumlandschaft)) is a painting by Swiss artist Paul Klee, made in 1920, in the collection of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Orientalist paintings of the nineteenth century include ones by artists such as Carl Haag (Danger in the Desert, 1867) and Jean-Léon Gérôme (Street Scene, Egypt, 1869).

[2] The memorial on the Victoria Embankment Gardens in London commemorates the Imperial Camel Corps in sculpture.

[4] "I would like now to examine the dimensions of the object in a new light to try to show how it is that the artist frequently arrives at what appears to be such an arbitrary 'deformation' of natural forms.

- Paul Klee[5] This is the period when the artist was working and teaching at the Bauhaus in Weimar under the direction of Walter Gropius.