“Landscape with Birds and Trees” from 1919 recalls the work “Tree on Yellow Meadow,” created two years earlier: motif and color choice are similar. Once again we find the luminous yellow fields, the sky, and the row of trees placed on the center line—this time there are only three. One stands radiant at the center of the composition, while the other two are rendered indistinctly at the edges of the picture. The eye is drawn to this tree at the center, which alone can embody the cycles of nature. Connecting heaven and earth, it is a witness to vitality and renewal, a bearer of hope and a cosmos in miniature. We also find the almost obligatory birds, depicted in flight as small black silhouettes circling the tree. The steadfast, rooted tree is thus contrasted with the movement and freedom of the birds—they too can be understood as mediating figures between heaven and earth. Whether rooted or free as a bird, both partake in the eternal becoming and passing of the world.