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The Klee Universe
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Edited by: Dr. Dieter Scholz, Christina Thomson
Texts by: Peter-Klaus Schuster, Otto Karl Werckmeister, Dr. Dieter Scholz, Dr. Christine Hopfengart, Olivier Berggruen, Dr. Anke Daemgen, Christina Thomson
English
November 2008,
368
Pages, 0 Ills., 377 Photos
hardcover
1mm x
1mm
ISBN:
978-3-7757-2273-5
“Everything will become Klee.” Paul Klee
With his highly individual yet universal pictorial language, Paul Klee (1879–1940) became known as one of the most important artists of the twentieth century. As early as 1901, he was aware of his desire “to become a good artist.” Encompassing all of his creative phases, this volume features more than two hundred works from the artist’s visionary and poetic pictorial worlds that uniquely blend the abstract with the figural.Klee’s oeuvre is introduced in thematic units: the human life cycle—from birth and childhood to sexual desire, parenthood, and death; his forms of cultural expression in music, theater, and religion; and his environment of plants, animals, and landscapes. The painter’s cosmos proves to be a circular system made up of ideas and images that attempt to grasp and interpret the world as a whole. A detailed essay analyzing Klee’s exploration of works by a select number of important artists of his day makes a crucial contribution to the body of research on Klee. (English edition ISBN 978-3-7757-2273-5) Exhibition schedule: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, October 31, 2008–February 8, 2009
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