The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

ISBN-13: 9780520006539 / Angielski / Miękka / 1968 / 434 str.

Paul Klee

Opis

Paul Klee was endowed with a rich and many-sided personality that was continually spilling over into forms of expression other than his painting and that made him one of the most extraordinary phenomena of modern European art. These abilities have left their record in the four intimate Diaries in which he faithfully recorded the events of his inner and outer life from his nineteenth to his fortieth year. Here, together with recollections of his childhood in Bern, his relations with his family and such friends as Kandinsky, Marc, Macke, and many others, his observations on nature and people, his trips to Italy and Tunisia, and his military service, the reader will find Klee's crucial experience with literature and music, as well as many of his essential ideas about his own artistic technique and the creative process.

O autorze

Paul Klee, geb. 1879 in Münchenbuchsee bei Bern, geht 1898 zum Studium nach München. 1906 heiratet er Lily, 1907 wird der Sohn Felix geboren. 1920 Berufung an das Bauhaus in Weimar. 1924 Gründung der Künstlergruppe 'Die Blaue Vier' mit Kandinsky, Jawlensky und Feininger und große Klee-Ausstellung im MoMA in New York. 1933 verliert Klee seine Stellung als Lehrer am Bauhaus und seine Kunst wird als"entartet"diffamiert. Rückkehr in die Schweiz, wo ihm ein Antrag auf Einbürgerung nicht gewährt wird. 1935 Diagnose der unheilbaren Krankheit Sklerodermie, an der er 1940 stirbt.