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| 1924 Paul Klee in his Weimar Bauhaus studio photograph by Felix Klee Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern |
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 - 3 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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| 1919 Tomcat's Turf watercolour, gouache, and oil on gesso on two sections of fabric mounted on card 31.8 x 23.5 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1919 Unlucky Star of the Ships watercolour, pen and ink on paper mounted on card 22.5 x 28.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1919 Untitled pen and ink, watercolour and pencil on paper mounted on paper 14.6 x 18.4 cm Private Collection |
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| 1919 Untitled watercolour and gouache on silk 24.5 x 13.9 cm Private Collection |
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| 1919 Villa R ( House at the Roadside ) oil on card 26.5 x 22.4 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1919 Waterfowl - Duck chalk, watercolour, pen and ink on paper mounted on card 22.9 x 19.4 cm Private Collection |
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| 1919 Windows and Roofs oil and pen an ink on paper mounted on card 27.2 x 21.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1919 With the Mountain Range watercolour and gouache on laid paper 24.4 x 32.4 cm © Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA |
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| 1919 With Two Dromedaries and One Donkey watercolour and gouache on paper 24.3 x 21.4 cm Indiana University Art Museum |
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| 1920 A Genius Serves a Small Breakfast lithograph National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1920 Angelus Novus oil and watercolour on paper on card 31.8 x 24.2 cm |
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| 1920 Before the Festivity watercolour and oil transfer drawing on paper, mounted on card 31.1 x 23.7 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1920 Bob gouache and India ink on gessoed paper mounted on card 38.4 x 24.1 cm Private Collection |
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| 1920 Castle Landscape with Black Lightning watercolour, India ink and pencil on paper mounted on card 24 x 16 cm Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern |
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| 1920 Ceremony and Sunset oil and pen and India ink on paper mounted on card 38.7 x 25.4 cm Private Collection |
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| 1920 Children and Dog watercolour and pen and ink on paper mounted on card 26.2 x 32.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1920 Christian Sectarian oil transfer drawing and watercolour on paper mounted on card 31.5 x 23.2 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1920 Destroyed Place oil on paper mounted on grey-blue cardboard mounted on card, with a narrow strip of tarnished silver around the image 22.3 x 19.5 cm Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| 1920 Drawing Knotted in the Manner of a Net ink on paper mounted on card 31.1 x 19.1 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1920 Episode at Kairouan watercolour and transferred printing ink on paper mounted on card 23.5 x 31.4 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1920 Great Hall for Singers watercolour and gouache on gesso on paper mounted on card 39.4 x 58.7 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1920 Kiosk - Architecture oil on board 49.5 x 43.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1920 Landscape with the Yellow Steeple oil and pen mounted on card 48.5 x 54 cm Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst |
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| 1920 Lovers gouache and graphite on paper mounted on black paper mounted on card 25.1 x 41.3 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1920 Miraculous Landing, or the "112!" watercolour, transferred printing ink, and ink on paper mounted on card 31.1 x 38.1 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1920 North African watercolour and oil transfer on paper mounted on card 32.2 x 25 cm Private Collection |
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| 1920 Park by the Lake watercolour on paper mounted on card 15.3 x 22.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1920 Park colour lithograph 12.4 x 10.2 cm ( plate ) National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1920 Park in the Rain oil on card mounted on card 33 x 21 cm Private Collection |
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| 1920 Phantom Perspective watercolour and transferred printing ink on paper mounted on cardboard 30.8 x 42.5 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1920 Poisonous Berries watercolour on chalk-grounded gauze on paper mounted on card 15.4 x 22.2 cm Private Collection |
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| 1920 Potted Plants I lithograph with watercolour additions 19 x 13.6 cm ( plate ) Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1920 Proud P'rrrsch watercolour, pen and ink on paper mounted on card 23.2 x 18.1 cm Private Collection |
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| 1920 Redgreen and Violet-Yellow Rhythms oil and ink on cardboard 37.5 x 33.7 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1920 Rider Unhorsed and Bewitched ink on paper mounted on cardboard 24.4 x 32.4 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1920 Rosa oil on cardboard 20.3 x 14.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1920 Rose Garden oil and pen on paper on carton Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich |
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| 1920 Temple Gardens gouache and traces of ink on three sheets of paper mounted on paper mounted on cardboard 23.8 x 30.2 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1920 Terraced Garden oil on cardboard 28 x 40 cm Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1920 The Crazy Village watercolour over oil transfer on paper 11.5 x 20.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1920 The End of the Last Act of a Drama oil transfer drawing, watercolour and ink on paper with ink border on board 24.1 x 33.3 cm Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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| 1920 The Great Emperor Rides to War oil transfer drawing and watercolour on paper mounted on card 31 x 23.8 cm Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie Sammlung Berggruen |
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| 1920 The Lamb oil on canvas Städelsche Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt |
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| 1920 Theatre-Mountain-Construction oil, gouache, and ink on paper mounted on cardboard 47.9 x 62.9 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1920 They’re Biting watercolour and oil paint on paper 31.1 x 23.5 cm Tate, London |
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| 1920 Transplant Metaphysical watercolour and black ink transfer, with pen and black ink, touches of red gouache, and traces of graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wood pulp laminate board 27.8 x 43.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1920 Tree and Architecture - Rhythms oil on paper 27.9 x 38.3 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1920 Veil Dance oil transfer drawing and watercolour on paper mounted on card 25.9 x 40 cm Israel Museum, Jerusalem |
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| 1920 White Blossom in the Garden oil on paper 17.8 x 17.2 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1921 ( From the Song of Songs ) Version II ink and watercolour on paper 16.2 x 17.4 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1921 A Little Memory of Nymphenburg gouache and watercolour on paper mounted on cardboard 14.6 x 12.4 cm Private Collection |
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| 1921 Adam and Little Eve watercolour and transferred printing ink on paper mounted on cardboard 42.2 x 29.8 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1921 All Souls' Picture watercolour and transferred printing ink on paper, bordered with ink, mounted on cardboard 40 x 53.7 cm The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1921 Apparatus for the Magnetic Treatment of Plants pen and ink on paper mounted on cardboard 22.2 x 28.2 cm Private Collection |