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Let yourself get closer to our works of Paul Klee in an informative and entertaining way. The content of the podcasts offer listeners the classic work descriptions and background information...
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 o...
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 glarin...
The doll with purple ribbons appears strange. The androgynous mixed being seems to float in space as though directed by an invisible hand. F...
Like Picasso, Klee was also seeking for simple, modern means of expression. But unlike Picasso, who was impressed by the magical charm of «p...
Paul Klee only rarely took an interest in perspectival constructions of spaces, architectures and places. Very early in his work, rather tha...
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. Nat...
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 t...
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 Ma...
In 1938, two years before his death, Klee worked intensively with writing, characters and generally sign-like pictorial elements. He produce...
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...
The picture «la belle jardinière», also known as «a bourgeois ghost», is a staging of surreal amusement. The schematic figure made up of red...
Even though the picture «Individualized Altimetry of Layers» was only created in 1930, it nevertheless indicates a direct relationship in it...
The 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...
The period in which the painting „Pomona, overripe“ was created can also be seen as a specially fertile time: As a result of his illness wit...
Paul Klee entered the painting "The creator", in his oeuvre catalogue in 1934 under number 213. Next to the entry, he wrote: "not touched fo...
Paul Klee returned to Berne, the city of his childhood and youth, on the 23rd December 1933. This was not done willingly, but was the enforc...
Until December 1918 Klee is in wartime service in Gersthofen and is not released until February 1919. During the last three war years Klee e...
They were made of plaster and were called "Mr. Death", "Kasperl", "Gretl, his wife", "Sepperl, his best friend", "the Devil", and "the Polic...
The 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...
In his black watercolours he laid layer after layer of black, almost transparent paint on the paper and in the superimposition of the layers...
As architecture follows certain patterns, structures and rules, mostly in geometrical forms, the structure of a painting should do the same....
Klee painted the first version in 1914, after the beginning of the First World War and the sudden death of August Macke. Until its completio...
The 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...
The E is interpreted partly as an abbreviation for the Bavarian town of Ebenhausen, but in Klee’s work such a pictorial element need not nec...
Paul Klee's »Zwei Männer, einander in höherer Stellung vermutend, begegnen sich«, 1903,[Two men meet, each believing the other to be of high...
It 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....
Klee explored the subject of weightlessness in paintings with a three-dimensional construction that appear to drift in space. They are based...
The picture "Park near Lu" lives from a strong contrast between the black symbols showing the trees, branches and paths of a park, and then...
But no other subject is so intensely dealt with in the »Inventionen« as the comedian, which comes up in three different versions. All of the...
Even 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 instan...
During his time as a teacher at the Bauhaus, Paul Klee made an intense study of motion in the static, gravity-bound world and in that of the...
In »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 paint...
Lady Demon was created in 1935 during a period of artistic helplessness and the search for new means of expression. Klee was caught in a cre...
In the summer of 1905, Klee started using a new medium: blackened sheets of glass, which he worked on with a needle. Using the resistance of...
The oil painting »Bildarchitectur rot gelb blau«, 1923, [Pictorial architecture red, yellow, blue] is one of the »square pictures« that Paul...
Let yourself get closer to our works of Paul Klee in an informative and entertaining way. The content of the podcasts offer listeners the cl...