A 1921 Paul Klee painting interpreted by Walter Benjamin as the angel of history, whose face is turned toward the past viewing history as one single catastrophe piling wreckage.
""His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage upon wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet." — Walte"