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Paul Klee - After the Drawing, 1919
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - March 17, 2017 10:29 - 1 minute - VideoAt the time around 1919, after his experiences in the 1st World War and his first successes in the art market, Paul Klee took up the theme of personal awareness and self-reflection in numerous self-portraits. The best known of these is the pencil drawing «Absorbtion». Klee’s theme here was less t...
Paul Klee - Hungry Girl, 1939
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - March 17, 2017 10:26 - 3 minutes - VideoYou would not want to meet Paul Klee’s "hungry girl" from 1939 in a dark alley at night. It shows a girl as a tooth-baring beast with glaring eyes. Nothing remains of a human being, let alone a sweet little girl. Its whole appearance is animal-like, even down to the little lines that Klee uses fo...
Paul Klee - Puppet on violet ribbons, 1906
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - March 17, 2017 10:24 - 2 minutes - VideoThe doll with purple ribbons appears strange. The androgynous mixed being seems to float in space as though directed by an invisible hand. For the first time in Klees work a humanlike figure is shown as a marionette, a motive which in his later work gained great importance. The doll behaves accor...
Paul Klee - Puppet Theatre, 1923
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - March 17, 2017 10:21 - 2 minutes - VideoLike Picasso, Klee was also seeking for simple, modern means of expression. But unlike Picasso, who was impressed by the magical charm of «primitive» sculpture, Klee discovered the original sources of art in his own childrens drawings. Initially he approached a reduction of form cautiously. In la...
Paul Klee - Room Perspective with inhabitants, 1921
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - March 17, 2017 10:19 - 3 minutes - VideoPaul Klee only rarely took an interest in perspectival constructions of spaces, architectures and places. Very early in his work, rather than traditional central perspective, he opted for free methods of construction which were inspired above all by Cubist ideas of composition, but which also too...
Paul Klee - Cosmic Flora, 1923
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - March 17, 2017 10:17 - 3 minutes - VideoDepictions of nature appear in Paul Klee’s work from his earliest drawings in the sketchbooks of his youth to the last year of his life. Nature, growth and plants in general are a core theme in Klee’s thought and artistic work. In his 1925 essay «Ways of Studying Nature» Klee sums up his thoughts...
Paul Klee - Forgetful Angel, 1939
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - March 17, 2017 10:14 - 2 minutes - VideoPaul Klee drew this «Forgetful angel» in 1939 with very few pencil lines. It is one of over 35 depictions of angels from the last years of the artist’s life and work. In their appearance they correspond entirely to our traditional ideas of gentle, winged creatures, even though Klee reduces the wi...
Paul Klee - Untitled(Composition with Fruits), around 1940
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - March 17, 2017 10:11 - 3 minutes - VideoThis large-format drawing on packing paper is one of the last works that Paul Klee produced. Klee’s health deteriorated in early 1940. In May he went for a spa cure in Ascona, from which he did not return. Some of his works remained incomplete, or at least untitled and unnumbered, in his studio. ...
Paul Klee - Beginning of a Poem, 1938
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - March 17, 2017 10:09 - 4 minutes - VideoIn 1938, two years before his death, Klee worked intensively with writing, characters and generally sign-like pictorial elements. He produced several works with the title «Alphabet», in which a pile of letters is scattered apparently at random over the picture surface. Klee even painted one of th...
Paul Klee - Insula dulcamara, 1938
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - March 17, 2017 10:06 - 3 minutes - VideoThis picture is the largest painting Paul Klee ever completed with the remarkable length of 176 cms. As is typical for this period Klee used newspaper which he glued onto jute. With colour paste he painted thick black stripes directly onto the paper. Only afterwards did he apply the white groundi...
Paul Klee - la belle jardinière, 1939
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - March 17, 2017 10:03 - 2 minutes - VideoThe picture «la belle jardinière», also known as «a bourgeois ghost», is a staging of surreal amusement. The schematic figure made up of red and blue lines, ironically titled by Paul Klee, the beautiful gardener in crinoline, holds in her raised left hand a bunch of flowers.The bourgeois ghost ap...
Paul Klee - Individualized Altimetry of Layers, 1930
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - March 17, 2017 10:00 - 1 minute - VideoEven though the picture «Individualized Altimetry of Layers» was only created in 1930, it nevertheless indicates a direct relationship in its formal structure to the Egyptian water colours. The composition is divided into twelve horizontal strips, called layers by Klee, which are cut through by f...
Paul Klee - High spirits, 1939
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - July 08, 2014 08:59 - 2 minutes - VideoThe picture was painted in 1939, when Paul Klee was driven from his position at the Düsseldorf Academy and living again in Berne. It is not unlikely, that Klee in this picture of the high-spirited was alluding to the National Socialists in Germany. Precisely the drummer’s arms refer to Hitler, wh...
Paul Klee - Pomona, overripe, 1938
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - July 08, 2014 08:58 - 3 minutes - VideoThe period in which the painting „Pomona, overripe“ was created can also be seen as a specially fertile time: As a result of his illness with progressive scleroderma Klee was only able to execute 25 works in 1936, and yet the following year was the beginning of a phase of extraordinary creative s...
Paul Klee - The creator, 1934
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - July 08, 2014 08:55 - 2 minutes - VideoPaul Klee entered the painting "The creator", in his oeuvre catalogue in 1934 under number 213. Next to the entry, he wrote: "not touched for several years". Klee frequently left paintings sitting in his studio for long periods, only to pull them out at the right time, rework them, or paint them ...
Paul Klee - Struck from the list, 1933
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - July 08, 2014 08:53 - 3 minutes - VideoPaul Klee returned to Berne, the city of his childhood and youth, on the 23rd December 1933. This was not done willingly, but was the enforced reaction to the accession to power by the National Socialists in Germany. From the beginning Paul and Lily Klee had observed the developments in Germany w...
Paul Klee- With the eagle, 1918
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - July 08, 2014 08:51 - 4 minutes - VideoUntil December 1918 Klee is in wartime service in Gersthofen and is not released until February 1919. During the last three war years Klee experiences a productive work phase, which stands in crass antithesis to the circumstances all around. The numerous aquarelle paintings from this time are dom...
Paul Klee - Untitled (Genie of the matchbox), 1925
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - July 08, 2014 08:49 - 2 minutes - VideoThey were made of plaster and were called "Mr. Death", "Kasperl", "Gretl, his wife", "Sepperl, his best friend", "the Devil", and "the Policeman2. With one exception, they were all destroyed in bombing in Würzburg in 1945.
Paul Klee - Before the gates of Kairouan, 1914
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - July 08, 2014 08:46 - 3 minutes - VideoThe view of the city turns into a play of simple square shaped areas and shades of colour casually laid upon each other. From this point it was just a small step to the water colours of pure coloured squares which were created on his return and in memory of Kairuan. In the evening Klee noted in h...
Paul Klee - Bucket and watering can, 1910
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - July 08, 2014 08:44 - 2 minutes - VideoIn his black watercolours he laid layer after layer of black, almost transparent paint on the paper and in the superimposition of the layers he achieved a nuanced gradation of light and ark. In "Bucket and watering can", 1910, he continued this process in gentle watercolour tones. Here too he pla...
Paul Klee - Red and yellow houses in Tunis, 1914
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - July 08, 2014 08:42 - 3 minutes - VideoAs architecture follows certain patterns, structures and rules, mostly in geometrical forms, the structure of a painting should do the same. At first glance the motif breaks down into many coloured planes. A particular pattern slowly appears, stripes seem to run through the painting horizontally ...
Paul Klee - Carpet of memory, 1914
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - July 08, 2014 08:39 - 2 minutes - VideoKlee painted the first version in 1914, after the beginning of the First World War and the sudden death of August Macke. Until its completion in 1921 Klee reworked the picture repeatedly.
Paul Klee - Once emerged from the gray of night..., 1918
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - July 08, 2014 08:37 - 3 minutes - VideoThe water colour was done at the beginning of 1918, at a time when Klee, as he noted in his diary, was reading a great many poems to escape from the depressing everyday existence of his wartime service. The origin of this poem is unknown. Probably it can even be attributed to Paul Klee.
Paul Klee - Landscape near E. (in Bavaria), 1921
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - July 08, 2014 08:35 - 2 minutes - VideoThe E is interpreted partly as an abbreviation for the Bavarian town of Ebenhausen, but in Klee’s work such a pictorial element need not necessarily assume a particular meaning. By incorporating individual letters Klee complements his pictorial trove of motifs: arrows, crescent moons, individual ...
Paul Klee - Pictorial architecture red, yellow, blue, 1923
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - October 13, 2011 15:00 - 3 minutes - VideoThe oil painting »Bildarchitectur rot gelb blau«, 1923, [Pictorial architecture red, yellow, blue] is one of the »square pictures« that Paul Klee worked on during his time at the Bauhaus in Weimar, and which he systematised in his Dessau Bauhaus period (1927-1930). More than ten years earlier, Kl...
Paul Klee - Park near Lu., 1938
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - October 13, 2011 15:00 - 4 minutes - VideoThe picture "Park near Lu" lives from a strong contrast between the black symbols showing the trees, branches and paths of a park, and then the surrounding colour zones like colourful foliage. It seems to have been a specific landscape which inspired Paul Klee to paint this picture. Klee's wife L...
Architecture of Zentrum Paul Klee
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - October 13, 2011 15:00 - 3 minutes - VideoIt was clear to Renzo Piano from the very outset that Klee had too much depth as an artist to ever be contained within an ordinary building. Renzo Piano felt that the Centre planned should be dedicated to the work of a "poet of stillness", so Piano's ideas revolved around an essentially tranquil ...
Paul Klee - Lady Demon, 1935
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - October 13, 2011 15:00 - 2 minutes - VideoLady Demon was created in 1935 during a period of artistic helplessness and the search for new means of expression. Klee was caught in a creative crisis due to his exile in Berne, the unhealthy political developments in Germany and above all, also due to the constantly deteriorating state of his ...
Paul Klee - The dart house, 1922
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - October 13, 2011 15:00 - 2 minutes - VideoEven four years after the end of the war, references to war themes and Paul Klee's experiences are still to be found in his work: For instance the picture "The Dart House". Only the indication of the weapon in the title and the exact depiction of such a bullet, is reminding Paul Klee of the First...
Paul Klee - The grey man and the coast, 1938
Zentrum Paul Klee EN - October 13, 2011 15:00 - 3 minutes - VideoIn »der Graue und die Küste«, 1938, [The grey man and the coast], a line beginning at the top edge swings back and forth, dividing the painting into horizontal segments. The »grey man« appears to observe this course, which the title describes as a coast. We too look down on a landscape of fjords ...
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