Paul Klee and artworks E-Book

Donald Wigal

• Herausgeber: Parkstone International
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2023

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Beschreibung

Paul Klee and artworks

Leseprobe

Donald Wigal

© 2023, Confidential Concepts, Worldwide, USA

© 2023, Parkstone Press USA, New York

© Image-Barwww.image-bar.com

© 2011, Paul Klee Estate/Artists Rights Society, New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

All rights reserved. No part of this may be reproduced or adapted without the permission of the copyright holder, throughout the world.

Unless otherwise specified, copyright on the works reproduced lies with the respective photographers. Despite intensive research, it has not always been possible to establish copyright ownership. Where this is the case, we would appreciate notification.

ISBN: 978-1-78160-977-4

Contents

BIOGRAPHY

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

17 Astray, 1923

A

Affected Place, 1922

Analysis of Various Perversities, 1922

Angel Serving a Light Breakfast, 1920

Architectural Plan for a Garden, 1920

Arrow in the Garden, 1929

Assyrian Game, 1923

B

Before the Gates of Kairouan, 1914

Before the Lightening, 1923

Before the Snow, 1929

Bird Islands, 1921

Blue Night, 1937

Broken Mask, 1934

C

Camel in Rhythmic Wooded Landscape, 1920

Carnival in the Mountain, 1924

Castle at Sunset, 1918

Castle Garden, 1931

Cat and Bird, 1928

Cerulean Blue Fruit, 1938

Choir and Landscape, 1921

City Used as a Veil, 1930

Colour Table (in Grey Major), 1930

Commemorative Painting of an Excursion, 1922

Construction-Impression, 1927

D

Daring Weighting, 1930

Departure of the Ships, 1927

Dispute, 1929

Dittlsam, 1918

E

Em-acht, 1932

Exotische Flusslandschaft (Landscape of an Exotic River), 1922

F

Fancy Dress Couple, 1923

Fantastic Flora, 1922

Fertility Well-Ordered (Recto of the Painted Leaf), 1933

Fire in the Evening, 1929

Fish Picture, 1925

Florentine Villa District, 1926

Flower Myth, 1918

Formation of Mountains, 1924

Fortification, 1932

Fruit Cut in Two, 1927

G

Garden in the Rocks, 1925

Garden of the Birds, 1924

Genii (Figures from a Ballet), 1922

God of the Northern Forest, 1922

H

Harbour and Sailing Boats, 1937

Harmony of the Nordic Flora, 1927

Heroic Strokes of the Bow, 1938

Hill of the Castle, 1929

Homage to Picasso, 1914

I

Idea and Structure of the Bauhaus, 1922

In the Quarry, 1913

Italian City, 1928

L

La Belle Jardinière, 1939

Lady Demon, 1935

Lighted Leaf, 1929

Linked to the Stars, 1923

Little Painting of Fir-Trees, 1922

Luftschloss, 1922

M

Mask of Fear, 1932

Measured Fields, 1929

Me-You-Earth-World, illustration for the essay Wege des Naturstudiums (Ways of Studying Nature), 1923

Monument in Fertile Country, 1929

Multicoloured Flowerbed, 1923

Mural from the Temple of Longing, 1922

N

Near Taormina, 1924

New Harmony, 1936

Nordic Place, 1923

North Sea Picture, 1923

Nymph in the Vegetable Garden, 1939

O

Once Emerged from the Gray of Night…, 1918

P

Park Landscape, 1920

Park Near Lu, 1938

Parting, at Night, 1922

Pflanzen - Analytisches (Vegetables - Analytic), 1932

Pictorial Architecture in Red, Yellow and Blue, 1923

Polyphonic White, 1930

Pomona, Overripe, 1938

Portrait of an Acrobat, 1927

Portrait of Mrs. P in the South, 1924

Project for a Garden, 1922

Puppet Theatre, 1923

Puppets (Multicolour on a Black Background), 1930

R

Railway Station L112, 14 km, 1920

Red and White Domes, 1914-1915

Red Eye, 1939

S

Sailing Boats, 1927

Senecio, 1922

She Bellows, We Play, 1928

Signs in the Field, 1935

Snail, 1924

Still Life with Props, 1924

Strange Garden, 1923

Study, 1928

Swiss Clown, 1940

T

Tale à la Hoffmann, 1921

The Creator, 1934

The Goldfish, 1925

The Legend of the Nile, 1937

The Mask with the Little Flag, 1925

The masters of the Bauhaus (from left to right): Lyonel Feininger, Vassily Kandinsky, Oscar Schlemmer, Georg Muche and Paul Klee in Klee’s Bauhaus Weimar studio, 1925.

The Same Curved Line Leads to a Variable Shape, 1931

The Sunken Island, 1923

The Tamer Irma Rossa, 1918

The Tightrope Walker, 1923

Three Flowers, 1920

To Plant According to the Rules, 1935

Tomb Carved in the Rock, 1932

Transparent and Perspective, 1921

Tree Rhythm in Autumn, 1920

Twittering Machine, 1922

U

Under a Black Star, 1918

Unsteady Balance, 1922

Untitled (Dead Nature), 1940

Untitled, 1914

V

Variation, Progressive Pattern, 1927

Ventriloquist and Crier in the Moor, 1923

Versunkene Landschaft (Engulfed Landscape), 1918

View of a Harbour at Night, 1917

Villa R, 1919

W

Warning of the Ships, 1917

Where?, 1920

“We learn to see what flows beneath.

We learn the prehistory of the visible.

The masters of the Bauhaus (from left to right): Lyonel Feininger, Vassily Kandinsky, Oscar Schlemmer, Georg Muche and Paul Klee in Klee’s Bauhaus Weimar studio, 1925.

Biography

1879:

On 18 December, Paul Klee is born near Bern, Switzerland.

1886:

Klee begins primary school in Bern.

1898:

Klee moves to Munich to study painting.

1900:

Klee attends Munich Academy. He studies under Franz von Stuck.

1901:

Klee travels to Italy.

1902:

Klee returns to Munich.

1905:

Klee travels to Paris where he sees the works of great artists.

1906:

Klee marries Lily Stumpf. Klee exhibits in Munich.

1907:

The couple’s only son Felix is born.

1909-1910:

Klee exhibits in Bern, Zurich, Winterthur and Basel.

1911:

Klee meets Kandinsky, Marc and Macke. He joins Der Blaue Reiter and is influenced by Cubism.

1912:

Klee visit Paris again. He meets Delaunay and is influenced by works of Picasso, Braque, Rousseau and Matisse.

1913:

Klee’s translation of Delaunay’s essay On Light is published.

1914:

Klee travels to Tunisia.

1916:

Klee drafted into the military. He paints very little.

1920:

A major retrospective of his works in Munich. He is invited to teach at the Bauhaus, which was then in Weimar.

1922:

Klee’s paintings are exhibited in Berlin and Wiesbaden.

1924:

First American exposition of Klee’s works.

1926:

Klee moves with his family so as to teach at the Bauhaus in Dessau.

1929:

Klee works exhibited in Paris, Dresden, and Berlin.

1931:

Klee resigns from the Bauhaus, then teaches at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts.

1933:

Klee’s work among those called “degenerate” by the Nazis. He is dismissed from the Academy. The Klees return to Bern where they live at his parents’ house.

1934:

Klee works exhibited in London, the first time in England.

1935:

A Klee retrospective exhibition in Bern and Basel. Klee falls seriously ill with what is later diagnosed as scleroderma. His art style changes as he uses thick black lines.

1937:

Seventeen of the Klee’s works confiscated by the Nazis are included in an exhibit of “Degenerate Art.”

1940:

A large exhibition of Klee works in Zurich. Klee dies on 29 June in Muralto-Locarno, Switzerland. Commemorative exhibitions are held in Bern, New York and Basel.

In the Quarry, 1913

Watercolour on paper on cardboard, 22.3 x 35.2 cm. Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern.

In a collection of his writings titled The Thinking Eye, Paul Klee once asked his readers to take a “little journey” with him to “the land of Better Understanding.” He was speaking of the technical aspects of art, but the same invitation can be made at the outset of this brief profile of the artist. This book offers a little journey through the highlights of Klee’s fascinating life. It also visits Klee’s art in general, and detours briefly into the fifty-nine representative works of his that are reproduced here. (A complete list of Klee’s 8,926 works is in the Catalogue raisonnè Paul Klee.) The Swiss-born Paul Klee (1879-1940) was one of the most inventive, witty, and imaginative of all artists. He was a master of fantasy, offering thousands of small but impressive works that consistently presented subtle wit and profound insight. His work is rarely mistaken for that of any other artist, yet – unlike many artists who find their niche then repeatedly visit it – each of his paintings has its own identity. He adroitly plays with the viewer’s senses, making his art ambiguous, yet nearly always understated. A major influence on the evolution of modern art, even as modern art in Germany was officially condemned, Klee did not subscribe entirely to any of the many movements of his day.

Klee (pronounced as ‘clay’) was born in Münchenbuchsee, near Bern, Switzerland, on 18 December, 1879.