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| 1921 Paul Klee with his cat Fripouille ( Skunk ) |
Paul Klee (1879 – 1940) was a Swiss German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored colour theory, writing about it extensively; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are held to be as important for modern art as Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting for the Renaissance. He and his colleague, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture. His works reflect his dry humour and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.
For more biographical notes, and for earlier works by Klee, see part 1.
Note: A lot of artwork descriptions finish with “mounted on card.” Klee would mount a large proportion of his work onto cardboard, where he would draw a line beneath the work, and add the title / date / description of the work.
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| 1913 The Hotel watercolour and ink on cardboard 29 x 21 cm Private Collection |
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| 1913 Two Little Girls pen and brush with China ink on paper mounted on card 16 x 13 cm Private Collection |
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| 1914 A Little Christmas Still-Life oil on board 43.2 x 38 cm Private Collection |
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| 1914 About a Motif from Hammamet oil on cardboard 26.9 x 22.2 xm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1914 Abstraction of a Motif from Hammamet watercolour and pencil on paper mounted on card 12.5 x 9.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1914 City of Tombs watercolour, pen and ink on paper on the artist's board 14 x 16.8 Private Collection |
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| 1914 Flora of the Dunes watercolour on paper mounted on card 10.5 x 12.2 cm Private Collection |
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| 1914 Garden in St. Germain, The European Quarter Near Tunis watercolour on paper mounted on card 27.9 x 33 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1914 Hammamet with Its Mosque watercolour and graphite on paper mounted on card 23.8 x 22.2 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1914 Hommage à Picasso oil cardboard 38 x 30 cm Private Collection |
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| 1914 In the Style of Kairouan watercolour on paper |
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| 1914 Motif from Hamammet watercolour and pencil on paper, mounted on card 20.3 x 15.7 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1914 Open Mountain watercolour and pen and ink on paper 23.1 x 18.9 cm Private Collection |
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| 1914 Oriental Watercolour watercolour on paper 7 x 8.7 cm Collection A. Rosengart |
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| 1914 Oriental Watercolour watercolour on paper 8 x 7.3 cm Collection A. Rosengart |
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| 1914 Park colour lithograph 12.4 x 10.2 cm ( plate ) |
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| 1914 Red and White Domes watercolour and gouache on Japan vellum, mounted on card 14.6 x 13.7 cm Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf |
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| 1914 Remembrance of a Garden watercolour on linen paper mounted on cardboard 25.2 x 21.5 cm Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf |
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| 1914 Small World etching on wove paper 14.4 x 9.5 cm ( plate ) National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1914 Southern Garden watercolour on paper mounted on cardboard 11.4 x 13.6 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1914 St Germain near Tunis watercolour on paper 18.5 x 24 cm Collection A. Rosengart |
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| 1914 St Germain near Tunis watercolour on paper 21.8 x 31.5 cm Musée National d'Art Moderne |
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| 1914 The Beach at St. Germain, near Tunis watercolour 21.5 x 26.9 cm Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany |
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| 1914 Thoughts of Battle watercolour on paper mounted on card 15.5 x 24.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1914 Untitled pen and ink on paper 17.5 x 16.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1914 Untitled watercolour and ink on paper mounted on cardboard 19.1 x 21 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1914 Untitled watercolour and pen on paper, laid on cardboard 17.1 x 15.8 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1914 Untitled watercolour on paper mounted on cardboard 15.6 x 15.6 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1914 Watercolour with Dark Green Cross watercolour over pencil on paper mounted on card 18 x 11.4 cm Private Collection |
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| 1914 With the Red X watercolour on paper mounted on card 32.7 x 25.1 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1915 Acrobats watercolour, pastel and ink on paper 22.5 x 27 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1915 Before the Town watercolour on paper mounted on card 24.8 x 31.4 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1915 Composition with Figures pen and ink and watercolour on paper mounted on card stock 10.2 x 12.7 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1915 Deep Pathos gouache and watercolour on paper mounted on cardboard 23.5 x 29.2 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1915 Durchleuchtungen, Orange-Blau watercolour on off-white wove paper fully attached to a heavy paperboard support 18.7 x 23.2 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, MI |
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| 1915 Föhn in Marc's Garden watercolour on paper mounted on card 20 x 15 cm Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| 1915 Garden watercolour over graphite pencil on paper mounted on card 13 x 24.1 cm Detroit Institute of Arts, MI |
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| 1915 Laughing Gothic watercolour and pastel on paper with metallic paper border mounted on card 28.9 x 16.5 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1915 Movement of Vaulted Chambers watercolour on paper mounted on card 23.5 x 28.3 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1915 Pathetic Watercolour, Red watercolour and gouache on paper mounted on car 7.2 x 7.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1915 Ribbon-Flower pen and black in, brush and grey wash and pencil on paper 19.6 x 10 cm Private Collection |
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| 1915 Right Angles, Silver Border on Four Sides watercolour on paper 20.6 x 23.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1915 The Death for the Idea lithograph 22.2 x 14 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1915 The Fir watercolour on paper mounted on card 21.1 x 15.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1915 The Forest that Emerged from the Seed watercolour on paper mounted on card 31 x 23.5 Private Collection |
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| 1915 Untitled watercolour and gouache on paper mounted on card 16.1 x 20.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1915 Weariness in a Spacious City watercolour, pen and pencil on paper mounted on cardboard 20 x 26.4 cm Private Collection |
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| 1916 City of Towers oil on canvas mounted on panel 32.7 x 35.9 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1916 Demon above the Ships watercolour and ink on paper with ink border on board 23.7 x 20.7 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1916 Destruction and Hope lithograph with watercolour and pencil additions 46.7 x 33.1 cm ( plate ) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1916 Introducing the Miracle gouache, pen, and ink on plastered fabric, mounted on card 29.2 x 23.6 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1916 Small Landscape India ink and grey wash on paper mounted on board 10.5 x 14.9 cm Private Collection |
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| 1916 With the Dot pen and black ink 12.4 x 14.5 cm The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| 1916 Young Proletarian oil on cardboard 24.4 x 22.7 cm Klee Museum, Berne, Switzerland |