[1] It is held at the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, in Düsseldorf, which acquired this painting in 1960 with the collection of the Pittsburgh entrepreneur G. David Thompson.
On one hand, the Bauhaus Dessau organised a "bart-herzen-nase-fest" (beard heart-nose festival) in 1928, at which Klee's student Herbert Bayer was also present.
Klee's friend Hans Arp also created a painting called Kopf, Augen, Nase, Schnurrbart (Head, eyes, nose, moustache).
[2] In 1999, Marianne Schroeder was influenced by the watercolour for her composition Wie der Klee vierblättrig wurde (How the clover became four-leaved).
The work was premiered by the Ensemble Sortisatio and recorded on the CD 8 Pieces on Paul Klee.