"Knight with Flowers" is one of a series of three photographs. Bayer sometimes staged figures in uncommon outfits and poses to achieve a surreal or dreamlike mood. Here he posed the painter Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart in a medieval visor, during a visit to a Swiss castle owned by the art patron Madame de Mandrot. As a transitional image between Bayer's more straightforward photographs and those he made between 1930 and 1936 using photomontage and collage techniques, it shows a convergence of his strong sense of graphic design and his intellectual playfulness.