Klee
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Klee - Donald Wigal
Author: Donald Wigal
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© Paul Klee Estate/ Artists Rights Society, New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
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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: 978-1-78160-628-5
Donald Wigal
Paul Klee
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Warning of the Ships, 1917
2. In the Quarry, 1913
3. In Front of the Door of Kairouan, 1914
BIOGRAPHY
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
1. Warning of the Ships, 1917.
Quill and watercolour on paper mounted
on cardboard, 24.2 x 15.6 cm.
Graphische Sammlung, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart.
"We learn to see what flows beneath.
We learn the prehistory of the visible.
We learn to dig deep and to lay bare, to explain, to analyse." Paul Klee
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 niches 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. His father, Hans, was German and a music teacher at the teacher training college at Bern-Hofwyl. Paul’s mother, Ida Marie, received her music education in Stuttgart. His paternal great-grandfather was an organist in Thuringia. His most famous drawing from his earliest childhood is With the Hare, done at age five. Also when young he drew devils
that he felt acquired real presence.
Early in his diaries he remembered how the devilish figures frightened him so much that he would run to his parents for comfort.
However, the first signs of young Paul Klee’s artistic temperament were expressed not in visual art, but in music. The family supported the young man’s efforts to master the violin, which he played from age seven in 1886 until he was forced by poor health to give up playing in 1935. Like the great Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867), he would play violin for an