This case report summarizes many years of research exploring the life of the artist paul klee and the disease which afflicted him. It employs watercolor on gauze and paper with a chalk ground, which produces a rich texture of triangular, circular, and crescent patterns the work is in the collection of the zentrum paul klee in bern, switzerland. Ab ovo is a 1917 painting by paul klee 18791940 made during his time in the german army, which is particularly noteworthy for its sophisticated technique. During his stay, klee gradually detached color from physical description and used it independently, which gave him the final needed push toward abstraction. The german painter paul klee 18791940 has become one of todays most popular artists. Keywords compassion, illness and art, misanthropy, paul klee, systemic sclerosis. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Rooted in symbolism, expressionism, cubism, orphism, constructivism, and surrealism, his work is a veritable index of twentiethcentury art. In 19, 6yearold felix klee lived in munich, germany, as the only child of paul and lily klee. The germanswiss modernist painter paul klee 18791940 suffered in the final years of his life from a severe illness, diagnosed in 1936 as scleroderma, later renamed ssc.
He graduated from the gymnasium of bern in 1897, where he qualified in the humanities. Paul klee pronounced clay was born in switzerland in 1879. They are very much of a piece with his art, often humorous or cryptically ironic, sometimes mystical. Browse upcoming and past auction lots by paul klee. Paul klee 18791940 alter krieger signed klee upper left. Read paul klee 1879 1940 online, read in mobile or kindle. Pdf this article reports on the disease that afflicted paul klee, the famous artist. Behind their creation was an artist possessed with deep insignt into many aspects of being, and the scope of his thinking embraced the entire universe. Alter krieger on the artists mount watercolor and charcoal on. Lily earned enough money teaching piano lessons to cover their expenses, while paul was a stayathome dad trying to build a career as an artist. Paul klee, 18791940 taschen by susanna partsch 199409. Paul klee 18791940 essay the metropolitan museum of.
Klee studied drawing and painting in munich for three years 18981901. An ethnic german although born in switzerland and a german citizen, he was persecuted by the nazi government on political rather than racial grounds because of his allegedly degenerate artistic style. His exquisitely sensitive line grew deliberately rough and crude and his sense of humour became macabre. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply. See more ideas about paul klee, paul klee art and art. Paul klee, 18791940 taschen by susanna partsch 19940901 paperback 1784 4. Original pen and ink drawing by paul klee 18791940, metamorphose, signed high right, dated and titled on the artists mount. Footprintnohra corredor paul klee 18791940 in his own words. During the byzantine era the city developed into sym vasilevousa coreigning, a term suggesting that at that. Reflective and often lyrical, the essays exemplify klee s. His works stand out for the variety in their forms of artistic expression. He was a philosopher, poet, musician, student of nature and teacher.
Paul klee 1879 1940 topics paul klee 1879 1940 paul klee german. The limpid light of north africa awakened paul klees sense of color. Paul klee 1879 1940 also available in format docx and mobi. Swiss germanswiss artist paul klee brought his personal expression about in the form of fantasy and whimsy. Download paul klee 1879 1940 ebook for free in pdf and epub format.
Paul klee 18791940 achieved international fame as the originator of whimsical and delightful hieroglyphs. His father was a music teacher and his mother a singer. He was a natural draftsman who experimented with selfportraits. Klee freely maneuvered between abstraction and representation, creating works which range from the openly gestural to the tightly geometric. His perception of the modern world was rendered in brevity with a simplistic, primitive style which he drew from childrens and primitive art. From then on, all the threads that he had meant to spin turned into tender roots. Michailidis of the two provinces of the eastern roman empire, chose thessaloniki in 300 ad to become the seat of his empire.
This site is like a library, use search box in the widget to get ebook that you want. Artist page for paul klee 18791940 parisbased producer and composer shcaa reflects on the many shades of mystery in paul klees watercolour. Paul klee december 18, 1879 june 29, 1940 was a swiss painter. Kleesiftung kunstmuseum, basel once emerged from the gray of night is one of many script pictures by klee inspired by chinese poems. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism. Early on it became apparent that klee was talented both in music and art. Click download or read online button to get paul klee 1879 1940 book now. Ninety works by kleeincluding drawings, watercolors, and oils, either serious, comical, capricious, or dramatichave recently been given to the metropolitan museum of art by one of the postwar eras leading art dealers and collectors, heinz berggruen, and are now published. In his teenage years, klee rebelled against his parents and chose to pursue a. The son of a music teacher, klee was a talented violinist, receiving an. Publication date 1967 topics klee, paul, 18791940 publisher new york. Creative confession and other writings matthew gale creative confession brings together three short critical texts written by paul klee 18791940, one of the most distinctive artists of the early 20th century.
Under swiss law citizenship was defined by the fathers nationality and klee thus inherited his fathers german citizenship. Paul klee documents the life of swissgerman painter and musician paul klee. Pdf case report on the illness of paul klee 18791940. Several aspects have been discussed more fully in my previous publication paul klee and his illness in 1933, paul klee, a popular professor at the dusseldorf college of art kunstakademie, was dismissed from office by the newly empowered national socialists.
The artist is a man, himself nature and part of nature in natural space. Registered and photographed in the artists catalog raisonne, volume 2, no. He died before the disease that killed him could be properly. Paul klees poems were never published anywhere in his lifetime, 18791940, and were in fact only found after his death. Ways of studying nature by paul klee for the artist, dialogue with nature remains a conditio sine qua non. Lot essay on some solemn night, klee planted in the most secret of places the germ of his selfcontained selfhood. His father, hans klee, was a music teacher, and mother, ida frick, had trained to be a singer. Paul klee was a major contributor to the development of modern european art. Paul klee was a prolific swiss and german artist best known for his large body of work, influenced by cubism, expressionism and surrealism.
The present exhibition of klees art consists of works lent by the paul klee foundation at berne, supplemented by a small. In 1898 he decided to move to munich, where he studied etching and drawing under heinrich knirr. Printable biography from the hey kids, meet the artist. His mother was a singer and his father was a music. We use cookies to deliver our online services and to provide more personalized services to you. Paul klee 1879 1940 download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi.
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