Paul Klee

Paul Klee
Münchenbuchsee (en) , Silimin gɔli December 18, 1879
O ya Tiŋgbaŋ	Kingdom of Prussia (en) Switzerland
Kpibu shee	Muralto (en) , Silimin gɔli June 29, 1940
Schosshalden cemetery (en)
Ŋ-ŋɔ kum	natural causes (en)  (scleroderma (en) )
Paɣa/yidana	Lily Klee (en)
Education
Shikuru shɛli o ni chaŋ	State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart (en) Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (en)
Bala yɛlibu, sabbu bee buɣisibu	Gaamani
Kariŋbia	Harald W. Lauesen (en)
Tuma
Tuma	Pɛnta-pɛnta, university teacher (en) , visual artist (en) , graphic artist (en) , lithographer (en) , designer (en) , printmaker (en) , architectural draftsperson (en) ni drawer (en)
Tuma shee	Munich, Bern (en) , Weimar (en) , Düsseldorf (mul) , Paris ni Dessau (en)
Ŋun kpuɣi o tuma	Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (en)
Notable work	Sumpflegende (en) Twittering Machine (en) Angelus Novus (en)
Influenced by	James Ensor (en) , Pablo Picasso ni Artistry of the Mentally Ill (en)
Nira zaŋti	Die Blaue Vier (en) The Blue Rider (en)
Laɣingu	Expressionism (en) surrealism (en) pointillism (en) Bauhaus (en) Color Field (en)
Nuu tuunbaŋsim balibu	abstract art (en) geometric abstraction (en)
Binkumdili	violin (en)
Zabili	World War I (en)

"Klee" redirects here. For other uses, see Klee (disambiguation).

Paul Klee (de; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) o nyɛla bɛ ni daa dɔɣi so Swiss ka o nyɛ German nuuni tuunbaŋda. Klee daa nyɛla ŋun sabiri pam; o wuhibu sabbunima kamani "Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre)", ka o wuligirili Siliminsili ni ka boli li Paul Klee Notebooks, di nyɛla din beni ni di sɔŋsim ʒaamani nuuni tuunbaŋsim, Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting daa zanimi ti Renaissance.

Flower Myth (Blumenmythos) 1918, watercolor on pastel foundation on fabric and newsprint mounted on board, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany

Red Balloon, 1922, oil on muslin primed with chalk, 31.8 × 31.1 cm. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Tuma

Main article: List of works by Paul Klee

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  Dame mit Sonnenschirm, 1883–1885, pencil on paper on cardboard, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
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  Hilterfingen, 1895, ink on paper, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
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  Third Invention: Jungfrau im Baum, 1903, etching, Museum of Modern Art, New York
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  Sixth Invention: Zwei Männer, einander in höherer Stellung vermutend, begegnen sich, 1903, etching, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
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  Aged Phoenix, 1905, etching, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

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  Fenster und Palmen, 1914, watercolor on grounding on paper on cardboard, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
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  In den Häusern von St. Germain, 1914, watercolor on paper on cardboard, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
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  Föhn im Marc’schen Garten, 1915, watercolor on paper on cardboard, Lenbachhaus, Munich
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  Acrobats, 1915, watercolor, pastel and ink on paper, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

In Engelshut, 1931, watercolor and colored inks on paper, mounted on paper, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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  Red/Green Architecture (yellow/violet gradation), 1922, oil on canvas on cardboard mat, Yale University Art Gallery, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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  Senecio, 1922, oil on gauze, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
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  Fright of a Girl, 1922, Watercolor, India ink and oil transfer drawing on paper, with India ink on paper mount, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
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  Puppet without title (self-portrait), 1922, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern

Bahigu tuma din daa tum Switzerland

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  Zeichen in Gelb, 1937, pastel on cotton on colored paste on jute on stretcher frame, Beyeler Foundation, Riehen, near Basel
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  Nach der Überschwemmung, 1936, wallpaper glue and watercolors on Ingres paper on cardboard
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  Revolution des Viadukts, 1937, oil on oil grounding on cotton on stretcher frame, Hamburger Kunsthalle
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  Die Vase, 1938, oil on jute, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen near Basel
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  Heroische Rosen (Heroic Roses), 1938, oil on canvas, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
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  Insula dulcamara, 1938, oil color and colored paste on newsprint on jute on stretcher frame, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
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  Ohne Titel (Letztes Stillleben), 1940, oil on canvas on stretcher frame, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
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  Tod und Feuer (Death and Fire), 1940, oil on distemper on jute, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern

External videos
Tɛmplet:YouTube, (3:38), The Art Fund (UK)

Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, Switzerland, designed by Renzo Piano

Additional musical interpretations

• Sándor Veress: Hommage à Paul Klee (1951), phantasy for two pianos and strings
• Peter Maxwell Davies: Five Klee-Pictures (1962), orchestral
• Harrison Birtwistle: Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum (The Perpetual Song of Mechanical Arcadia) (1977), for orchestra
• Edison Denisov: Drei Bilder von Paul Klee (Three Pictures of Paul Klee) (1985), for six players (Diana im Herbstwind − Senecio – Kind auf der Freitreppe)
• Tōru Takemitsu: All in Twilight (1987), for guitar
• John Woolrich: The kingdom of dreams (1989), for oboe and piano ('Landscape with Yellow Birds', 'The Bavarian Don Giovanni', 'Tale à la Hoffmann', 'Fish Magic')
• Leo Brouwer: Sonata (1990), for guitar
• Walter Steffens: Vier Aquarelle nach Paul Klee (Four Watercolor Pictures to Paul Klee) (1991), op. 63, for recorder(s)
• Tan Dun: Death and Fire (1992), Dialogue with Paul Klee, orchestral
• Judith Weir: Heroic Strokes of the Bow (1992), for orchestra
• Jean-Luc Darbellay: Ein Garten für Orpheus (A Garden for Orpheus) (1996), for six instruments
• Michael Denhoff: Haupt- und Nebenwege (Main and Sideways) (1998), for strings and piano
• Iris Szeghy: Ad parnassum (2005), for strings
• Patrick van Deurzen: Six: a line is a dot that went for a walk (2006), for Flugelhorn, DoubleBass & Percussion
• Jim McNeely: Paul Klee (2007), Jazz album written for the Swiss Jazz Orchestra composed of 8 pieces
• Jason Wright Wingate: Symphony No. 2: Kleetüden; Variationen für Orchester nach Paul Klee (Variations for Orchestra after Paul Klee) (2009), for orchestra in 27 movements
• Sakanaction: "Klee" (2010), from the album Kikuuiki; a song envisioned as a dialogue with Klee's paintings.
• Ludger Stühlmeyer: Super flumina Babylonis [An den Wassern zu Babel]. (2019), fantasia for organ (Introduzione, Scontro, Elegie, Appassionato) on an aquarelle by Paul Klee.
• George Crumb: Metamorphoses, Book 1: No. 1, Black Prince; No. 2, Goldfish and Metamorphoses, Book 2: No. 1, Ancient Sound, Abstract on Black; No. 2, Landscape with Yellow Birds (2019), for piano after paintings of the same name by Paul Klee

Publications

• Jardi, Enric (1991). Paul Klee, Rizzoli Intl Pubns, ISBN 0-8478-1343-6
• Kagan, Andrew (1993). Paul Klee at the Guggenheim Museum (exhibition catalogue) Introduction by Lisa Dennison, essay by Andrew Kagan. 208 pages. English and Spanish editions. 1993, ISBN 978-0-89207-106-7
• Cappelletti, Paolo (2003). L'inafferrabile visione. Pittura e scrittura in Paul Klee (in Italian). Milan: Jaca Book. ISBN 88-16-40611-9
• Partsch, Susanna (2007). Klee (reissue) (in German). Cologne: Benedikt Taschen. ISBN 978-3-8228-6361-9.
• Rudloff, Diether (1982). Unvollendete Schöpfung: Künstler im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert (in German). Urachhaus. ISBN 978-3-87838-368-0.
• Baumgartner, Michael; Klingsöhr-Leroy, Cathrin; Schneider, Katja (2010). Franz Marc, Paul Klee: Dialog in Bildern (in German) (1st ed.). Wädenswil: Nimbus Kunst und Bücher. ISBN 978-3-907142-50-9.
• Giedion-Welcker, Carola (1967). Klee (in German). Reinbek: Rowohlt. ISBN 978-3-499-50052-7.
• Glaesemer, Jürgen; Kersten, Wolfgang; Traffelet, Ursula (1996). Paul Klee: Leben und Werk (in German). Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz. ISBN 978-3-7757-0241-6.
• Rümelin, Christian (2004). Paul Klee: Leben und Werk. Munich: C.H. Beck. ISBN 3-406-52190-8.
• Lista, Marcella (2011). Paul Klee, 1879-1940 : polyphonies. Arles: Actes Sud. ISBN 978-2330000530

Books, essays and lectures by Paul Klee

• 1922 Beiträge zur bildnerischen Formlehre ('Contributions to a pictorial theory of form', part of his 1921–22 lectures at the Bauhaus)
• 1923 Wege des Naturstudiums ('Ways of Studying Nature'), 4 pages. Published in the catalogue for the Erste Bauhaus Ausstellung (First Bauhaus Exhibition) in Summer 1923. Also published in Paul Klee Notebooks vol 1.
• 1924 Über moderne Kunst ('On Modern Art'), lecture held at Paul Klee's exhibition at the Kunstverein in Jena on 26 January 1924
• 1924 Pädagogisches Skizzenbuch ('Pedagogical Sketchbook')
• 1949 Documente und Bilder aus den Jahren 1896–1930, ('Documents and images from the years 1896–1930'), Berne, Benteli
• 1956 Graphik, ('Graphics'), Berne, Klipstein & Kornfeld
• 1956 Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre ('Writings on form and design theory') edited by Jürg Spiller (English edition: 'Paul Klee Notebooks')
  • 1956 Band I: Das bildnerische Denken., ('Volume I: the creative thinking'). 572 pages review. (English translation from German by Ralph Manheim: 'The thinking eye')
  • 1964 Band 2: Unendliche Naturgeschichte ('Volume 2: Infinite Natural History') (English translation from German by Heinz Norden: 'The Nature of Nature')
• 1964 The Diaries of Paul Klee 1898–1918 ed. Felix Klee Berkeley, University of California
• 1976 Schriften, Rezensionen und Aufsätze edited by Ch. Geelhaar, Köln,
• 1960 Gedichte, poems, edited by Felix Klee
• 1962 Some poems by Paul Klee ed Anselm Hollo. London

Lihi pahi

• Color theory
• Watercolors
• Expressionism
• Der Blaue Reiter

Noosi mini Kundivihira

Further reading

• Berggruen, Olivier (2011). "Paul Klee – In Search of Natural Signs". The Writing of Art. London: Pushkin Press. ISBN 978-1906548629.
• Franciscono, Marcel (1991). Paul Klee: His Work and Thought. University of Chicago Press, 406 pages, ISBN 0-226-25990-0.
• Hausenstein, Wilhelm (1921). Kairuan oder eine Geschichte vom Maler Klee und von der Kunst dieses Zeitalters ('Kairuan or a History of the Artist Klee and the Art of this Age')
• Kort, Pamela (2004). Comic Grotesque: Wit and Mockery in German Art, 1870–1940. Prestel. p. 208. ISBN 978-3-7913-3195-9. Archived from the original on 4 March 2008.CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
• Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné. 9 vols. Edited by the Paul Klee Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts, Berne. New York: Thames & Hudson, 1998–2004.
• Rump, Gerhard Charles (1981), "Paul Klees Poetik der Linie. Bemerkungen zum graphischen VokabularTɛmplet:-". In: Gerhard Charles Rump: Kunstpsychologie, Kunst und Psychoanalyse, Kunstwissenschaft. Olms, Hildesheim and New York. pp. 169–185. ISBN 3-487-07126-6.
• Sorg, Reto, and Osamu Okuda (2005). Die satirische Muse – Hans Bloesch, Paul Klee und das Editionsprojekt Der Musterbürger. ZIP Zürich (Klee-Studien; 2), ISBN 3-909252-07-9
• Paul Klee: 1933, published by Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Helmut Friedel. Contains essays in German by Pamela Kort, Osamu Okuda, and Otto Karl Werckmeister.
• Werckmeister, Otto Karl (1989) [1984]. The Making of Paul Klee's Career, 1914–1920. University of Chicago Press, 343 pages, 125 halftones. ISBN 0-226-89358-8

External links

• Paul Klee's Cats
• Tɛmplet:Helveticat
• Zentrum Paul Klee – The Paul Klee museum in Bern
• Scans of pages of Paul Klee's notebooks from the Zentrum Paul Klee
• "Creative Credo" – by Paul Klee, 1920
• Tɛmplet:MoMA artist
• Paul Klee at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA)
• Biographie Paul Klee (in French)
• "Paul Klee", Der Ararat, Vol. 1, Second Special Number, edited by Hans Goltz, Munich, May–June 1920
• Klee 1879-1940 by Susanna Partsch (2003)