"Ich habe diesen Krieg in mir längst gehabt. Daher geht er mich innerlich nichts an.§Um mich aus meinen Trümmern herauszuarbeiten, mußte ich fliegen. Und ich flog. In jener zertrümmerten Welt weile ich nur noch in der Erinnerung, wie man zuweilen zurückdenkt. (Paul Klee, 1915)§§Das künstlerische Werk, welches hier in vierzig ausgewählten Gemälden und Aquarellen vorgestellt wird, ist Ausdruck einer ungewöhnlichen Sensibilität und gedanklichen Tiefe, die Paul Klees fragile Schöpfungen zu gültigen und zeitlosen Botschaften werden ließen. In seinem einführenden Text zeichnet der...

Paul Klee. The Bauhaus in Weimar was just celebrating the first anniversary of its foundation when Walter Gropius sent a telegram to Paul Klee in 1920, asking him to join them a master: a cordial invitation to become a teacher at the Bauhaus. This year was of particular importance in the life and work of Paul Klee. His first great retrospective, organized by the Munich-based gallery owner Hans Goltz, opened in May. A total of 362 works executed between 1903 and 1920 was exhibited. The Paul Klee volume in the Junge Kunst series, one of the first monographs about him, was published shortly...

Paul Klee (1879-1940) was an extraordinary draftsman, printmaker, teacher and theoretician with a singular style whose work greatly impacted the development of twentieth-century art. Klee's prints demonstrate, more fully than his works in any other medium, his remarkable evolution from a traditionalist to one of the most daring innovators of modern art. This limited-edition facsimile of The Prints of Paul Klee, originally published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1947, presents 40 of Klee's etchings and lithographs from MoMA's collection, ranging in date from 1903 to 1931 and...

Dieser Band enthält 12 Kunstposter mit einer ausführlichen Beschreibung des jeweiligen Werkes.