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| 1921c Paul Klee photographed by Hugo Erfurth 50.2 x 39.1 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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 see part 1. For earlier works by Klee see parts 1 & 2 also.
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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| 1917 Colourful Architecture gouache on paper mounted on cardboard 26 x 20 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1917 Insight into a City watercolour over pen and India ink on paper 24.7 x 32.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1917 Landscape pen and pencil on paper mounted on on card 10.2 x 16.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1917 Libido of the Forest watercolour on gesso on fabric mounted on cardboard 18.1 x 25.4 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1917 Municipal Jewel watercolour, gouache, and graphite on gesso on paper mounted on cardboard 16.8 x 26 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1917 Persian Nightingales gouache, watercolour, and pen and black ink over graphite on laid paper, mounted on cardboard 22.8 x 18.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1917 Targets in the Fog gouache on paper mounted on board 24.5 x 15.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1917 The Chapel watercolour and tempera 29.5 x 15 cm |
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| 1917 The Idea of Firs watercolour and graphite on paper, mounted on card 24 x 16 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1917 Uber Bergeshöhen gouache on paper 31 x 24.1 cm Gemeente Museum, Den Haag, Netherlands |
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| 1917 Untitled pencil, gouache and watercolour on paper 24 x 32 cm Private Collection |
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| 1917 Untitled watercolour, pen and ink on paper, mounted on card 9.5 x 28 cm Private Collection |
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| 1918 Barbaric Composition watercolour and gouache on paper mounted on card 18.5 x 11.8 cm Private Collection |
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| 1918 Composition with the Yellow Half-Moon and the Y gouache and watercolour on gesso on fabric mounted on card 22.2 x 16.8 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1918 Cosmic Revolutionary pen and brown ink, on cream wove paper, laid down on cream wood-pulp laminate card 24.6 x 22 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1918 Demons watercolour and India ink on paper mounted on card 12.5 x 9.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1918 Flower Myth watercolour on pastel on fabric and newsprint mounted on card 30.5 x 17 cm |
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| 1918 Large Landscape M. D. Black Sun watercolour and ink on paper mounted on card 16.5 x 21 cm Private Collection |
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| 1918 Poor Sinner watercolour, pen and ink on paper with foil upper border 32.4 x 34.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1918 Portrait of Brigette watercolour Private Collection |
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| 1918 Remembrance Sheet of a Conception watercolour, gouache and India ink on wove papers, mounted on card 25.7 x 16.8 cm © Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA |
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| 1918 Song of the Journey by Ship ink and watercolour on paper mounted on card 29.5 x 22.8 cm Private Collection |
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| 1918 The Horse watercolour on paper mounted on card 13.7 x 21.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1918 The Tree of Houses watercolour, gouache and India ink on chalk-primed gauze on wove papers, mounted on card 21.9 x 18.4 cm © Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA |
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| 1918 Under Black Star watercolour on plaster base on gauze, top and bottom of paper strips mounted on card 20.5 x 15.5 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1918 Unfinished Landscape Framed in Cerulean Blue watercolour, pen and ink on paper mounted on card 24.5 x 15.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1918 Unfinished Landscape watercolour and gouache on paper mounted on card 14.9 x 22.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1918 Untitled watercolour and gouache with graphite on off-white wove paper mounted on card card 22.7 x 18 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1918 With the Flag ink on paper mounted on card 32.1 x 24.4 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1919 Angler Memory of L. watercolour and pen and ink on paper mounted on card 27.4 x 21.9 cm Private Collection |
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| 1919 Any Kind of Cruelty oil on paper mounted on canvas 28 x 22.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1919 Architecture with Window zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland |
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| 1919 Birds Swooping Down and Arrows watercolour and transferred printing ink on gesso on paper mounted on card 24.4 x 32.1 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1919 Black Columns in a Landscape watercolour and ink on paper mounted on cardboard 24.1 x 31.4 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1919 Blowing Out a Candle lithograph 15.9 x 13 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1919 Castle Garden watercolour on chalk ground on paper, mounted on silver paper, mounted on card 21.4 x 16.8 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1919 City of R watercolour on plaster mounted gauze on card 16.5 x 22 cm Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| 1919 Death in the Garden ( Legend ) oil on cotton, on cardboard nailed to wood 27.3 x 24.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1919 Ein Druck von Tegernsee watercolour 31.7 x 24.1 cm |
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| 1919 Façade Brown-Green oil paint, pencil and pen on paper on painted cardboard 24 x 31 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1919 Falling Bird watercolour, transferred printing ink, and ink on paper, bordered with ink, mounted on card 23.5 x 27 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1919 Gallows Humour pen and ink on paper mounted on card 28.9 x 21.9 cm Private Collection |
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| 1919 Jumping Jack watercolour, oil transfer drawing, and graphite on paper, mounted on card 28.4 x 22 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1919 Lady Inclining Her Head watercolour and transferred printing ink on paper mounted on card 32.4 x 24.8 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1919 Landscape with Bluebirds gouache on paper mounted on card 21.6 x 28.3 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA |
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| 1919 Mathematical Portrait oil transfer drawing on paper, mounted on card 27.3 x 21.6 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas |
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| 1919 Moonlight gouache and watercolour on linen 24.3 x 18.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1919 Purple Aster oil on paper mounted on card 34 x 29 cm Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany |
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| 1919 Small Harbour Scene oil on paper mounted on card Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, UK |
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| 1919 Small Landscape oil paint and varnish on canvas mounted on card 20.5 x 16.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1919 Southern Gardens watercolour and ink on paper mounted on cardboard 28.9 x 22.5 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1919 The Bavarian Don Giovanni watercolour and ink on paper 22.5 x 21.3 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1919 The Hypocrites watercolour and transferred printing ink on paper, bordered with metallic foil, mounted on card 24.1 x 31.8 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1919 The Thistle Flower House oil on card 34.5 x 29.5 cm Städtische Galerie im Städelisches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany |