Writings from Jena to Art History, volume 10, art history seminar, Jenoptik AG, print house Gera, Jena 1999, p. During the exhibition, some of Klee's thoughts and quotes were printed on the walls and I was drawn to his writing and to his way of seeing the world.

He had a happy family life, and got out of Germany back to his homeland of Switzerland in 1933, after a noted teaching career, owing to the urging of his wife. It was fascinating to see how Klee pretty much kept on with his work, in spite of being drafted into the German army - - a good wheeze to rent a flat in the town he was allowed to go to on leave, and use it to change into civvies so he could travel by train to visit his family. Though I like to think Paul Klee was not a mortal, this book reveals the thoughts of his day to day life and the rational behind his genius paintings. Its overlaying technique evinces the polyphonic character of his drawing method between 1920 and 1932.Not only to master life in practice, but to shape it meaningfully within me and to achieve as mature an attitude before it as possible. For Klee, the German classic painter of the Cubism, the world music became his companion, possibly even a part of his art; the composition, written in notes, seems to be not dissimilar. His works during this time include Camel (in rhythmic landscape with trees) as well as other paintings with abstract graphical elements such as betroffener Ort (Affected Place) (1922). The first Blaue Reiter exhibition took place from 18 December 1911 to 1 January 1912 in the Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser in Munich.

Demonstrating his range of exploration, mixing color and line, his Warning of the Ships (1918) is a colored drawing filled with symbolic images on a field of suppressed color. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored color 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 was for the Renaissance.

Others include the American composer David Diamond in 1958, with the four-part Opus Welt von Paul Klee (World of Paul Klee). From that period he created Die Zwitscher-Maschine (The Twittering Machine), which was later removed from the National Gallery. I bought it only to read the passages about WWI, though eventually I might get round to reading the rest of it. Here, Klee did not lean on Delaunay's colors, but on Marc's, although the picture content of both painters does not correspond with each other.

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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. Now the country is becoming flatter, the first windmills appear, and there are signs of a large city soon to come (Hanover. Klee has been variously associated with Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism, and Abstraction, but his pictures are difficult to classify.