Latest Bauhaus Podcast Episodes

Paul Klee - Two men meet, each believing the other to be of higher rank, 1903

Zentrum Paul Klee EN - October 13, 2011 15:00 - 1 minute - Video
Paul Klee's »Zwei Männer, einander in höherer Stellung vermutend, begegnen sich«, 1903,[Two men meet, each believing the other to be of higher rank] is part of a group of works known as the »Inventionen« [Inventions], eleven etchings from the years 1903 to 1905, whose meticulous technique and det...

Paul Klee - Untitled (Aare landscape), 1900

Zentrum Paul Klee EN - October 13, 2011 15:00 - 3 minutes - Video
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Paul Klee - Hovering, 1930

Zentrum Paul Klee EN - October 13, 2011 15:00 - 2 minutes - Video
Klee explored the subject of weightlessness in paintings with a three-dimensional construction that appear to drift in space. They are based on precise constructive principles, yet are frequently irrational in their spatial logic. In »Schwebendes«, 1930, [Hovering], the corners of the overlapping...

Paul Klee - Fish people, 1927

Zentrum Paul Klee EN - October 13, 2011 15:00 - 4 minutes - Video
During his time as a teacher at the Bauhaus, Paul Klee made an intense study of motion in the static, gravity-bound world and in that of the dynamic. The possibilities of movement open to birds and fish interested him particularly, as did their elements - air and water. Klee called water an »in-b...

Paul Klee - Portrait of an emotional lady, 1906

Zentrum Paul Klee EN - October 13, 2011 15:00 - 3 minutes - Video
In the summer of 1905, Klee started using a new medium: blackened sheets of glass, which he worked on with a needle. Using the resistance of this unusual medium, he discovered a new form of artistic expression - the scratched drawing. In his diary, he described his discovery thus: »The medium is ...

Paul Klee - Comedian, 1904

Zentrum Paul Klee EN - October 13, 2011 15:00 - 1 minute - Video
But no other subject is so intensely dealt with in the »Inventionen« as the comedian, which comes up in three different versions. All of them show the head of a man in profile, hidden behind a mask. While the faces of the two first versions are recognisable as self-portraits, the third image focu...