Zentrum Paul Klee EN Podcast
1) Paul Klee - After the Drawing, 1919
At 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-po...Show More
2) Paul Klee - Hungry Girl, 1939
You 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 ...Show More
3) Paul Klee - Puppet on violet ribbons, 1906
The 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 ...Show More
4) Paul Klee - Puppet Theatre, 1923
Like 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...Show More
5) Paul Klee - Room Perspective with inhabitants, 1921
Paul 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...Show More
6) Paul Klee - Cosmic Flora, 1923
Depictions 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...Show More
7) Paul Klee - Forgetful Angel, 1939
Paul 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 correspo...Show More
8) Paul Klee - Untitled(Composition with Fruits), around 1940
This 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 re...Show More
9) Paul Klee - Beginning of a Poem, 1938
In 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 o...Show More
10) Paul Klee - Insula dulcamara, 1938
This 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 pa...Show More