 During his twelve-day educational trip to Tunis in April 1914 Klee produced with Macke and Moilliet watercolor paintings, which implement the strong light and color stimulus of the North African countryside in the fashion of Paul Cézanne and Robert Delaunays' cubistic form concepts.The aim was not to imitate nature, but to create compositions analogous to nature's formative principle, as in the works "In den Häusern von Saint-Germain" (In the Houses of Saint-Germain) and "Straßencafé" (Streetcafé).Klee conveyed the scenery in a grid, so that it dissolves into colored harmony.