in one hundred ten she wrote to his friend anton pashka. to leave vienna very soon everyone envies me and conspires against me the city is black and everything follows rules i want to be alone i want to go to the b. he me and forest he was yearning for a place called kumo is the daughter stone shayna referred to it has the devastating and in fact it was. the german population had been expelled and young czechs didn't want to live in the old town center they'd built new houses on the outskirts. is the town was entirely empty cancer roamed the streets and it was just one house that was fit to serve as accommodation everything else was barricaded there were trees growing from attics the town was dead. i see the dead city as a key painting to understanding all his unreal ideas and thoughts. it appears dream like as if the town were rising up from a river. of course but stead there's no one in it. he repeatedly painted a part of the old town with a bird's eye view from the console not from the tower but from a long passage way from where if you