Tree frog with treats

Watercolor-ink, ca. 1923

Technique: Aquarell
Size: 21 x 16.5 cm

CID: 101155
Collection: Lindau BH

Cycle: Drawings for a children's book

Tree frog with treats : Green, small, noisy - children's weather frog

He is so small, his green skin is so tender that children have their joy in him. To this he can so loudly quoke as hardly another. Children should have access quickly, because otherwise they will bounce off. The easiest way to catch it is when he dusts on a leaf of the sun. He loves the warmth. When the sun comes, it bounces high in the bushes and trees. Even the captured frog in the glass wants to go high - preferably over the glass out into the open. His favorite feed are insects, spiders. Most of the time he catches them at night - because then all the children and his enemies are asleep.

Above the foliage frog and its delicacy are painted two grasses as a scythe - they remind the peasant who will mow with his scythe this meadow. Or to the death that brings home with his scythe.