A telegram from Weimar.
Glad tidings from Weimar, Klee taught at the Bauhaus. the known rate. With the first time extensive archive on an exhibition of Paul Klee explained by the story of his life ago. The images for this time in display cases and documents are the property of the Vita. Where everywhere he was, what he saw, whom he met? Klee, the reader, the letter writer and working in the studio, the traveler, the cat friend, colleague, father, husband, musician ... "This side, I am not at all comprehensible." If someone says it that way, that says a lot about him. However, the exhibition seeks explanation from another side.
containers are at the beginning of books from the library of the artist. 1200 volumes are stored in the Klee center. A quick look: Literature (From the Nibelungenlied by Flaubert), music history magazines, art books: Bredius' list of the Rembrandt painting, Meier-Graefe, "van Gogh," Carl Einstein's "Negro art" ... Then miscellaneous work tools: a set of brushes and sieves, pigment in glass jars and bags, Pen nibs, brush. A episcope that he had built himself.
the young Klee, who breaks off to study art in Munich is seeking, closeness to nature and yet the distance of the satirist. Long as he fluctuates between art and music. Back from Munich with his parents in Bern, he earns extra income as a violinist. The lovely violin - Milan, 18 Century - is there behind glass. Lily leaf clover has a nice seat in the house. "Music making way" did you know each other, says the husband. Lily Klee is again in Munich (1906). Munich takes a few years later, the big change. Keywords Blauer Reiter. Felix Klee is in the headphones to hear voice. The clover-son (born 1907) remembers. He willingly went to Wassily Kandinsky next door to paint. And how the family admired the colors of clover Russians! Later, after the war, when we saw again in Weimar, as the clover were a little disappointed in what had become of the colors. Says Felix.
The time at the Bauhaus then also. On 29 October 1920 Klee reached the telegram from Weimar. "Dear dear Paul Klee ... "Klee champion in the elite of the modern had become. In his own work is the educational thinking is not immune. This is documented in Bern, as well as Klee's tracks, which draw in students' work. And finally Klee's affinity to a different art, beyond all the theory - a very instinctive art without art. Carefully as if they were their own, he archived the colored leaves of the young Felix, which will also reveal that this person would know what the Father Sun
two strands of thought - rational mind and pure image pulse - search forms of the link. First published books on Klee. 1921 William Stone House «Kairouan or the story of painter Klee." That trip to Tunis in 1914, was recently the subject of major thematic show "In Search of the Orient". The exhibition now allows the painter ever seen as a passionate traveler. Travel inspire his fantasy image, his influence travel experiences seeing the long term. Like 1902, the visit to the aquarium in Naples, with its bizarre underwater worlds. And, as you can see very directly - in paintings such as "In Taormina" or "sea behind the dunes."
When the painter came back not once
The painting and drawing to the display postcards and souvenirs arrange shells, dried plants. In 1927, the master will then the leave does not return to the Bauhaus. A letter will be sent from there to him. For three weeks we had at work. Tardiness a bad example. The reminder to take residence immediately, fits in a weighty block of signatures. Kandinsky, Moholy-Nagy, Albers, and so on.
An exhibition several years ago made it clear how directly Klee responded in 1933 to contemporary history and Schickalsschläge. Klee - now a professor at Dusseldorf - is exposed to attacks by the Nazis in April and will without notice "on leave". For insecurity and anger, he seeks out drawing a valve. How different distances inside, he had reacted to the outbreak of World War II. The graphical notations of the year '33 are of an unusual nervous volatility and roughness. His visual metaphors very readable. A "scholar" with a only a very pale shimmering head. Satire of Secrets is the "ghost rags." And with the end of 1933, emigration to Switzerland, the country of his origin, the crisis is not overcome. The onset of his disease (scleroderma) brings the work to a virtual standstill in 1936 - before settling, increases in view of the end to an unprecedented momentum.
fear remains subject. The disease is one. And the Germany that is behind him. Darkness, even in light of "Insula Dulcamara". But in winter, "Park with Lu." a little plant sprouts hope. Impending despair countered clover with the rapier of his wit. From the adverse circumstances of life he brings the greatest profit for its work. Quite understand you have not, however, only if you explained the circumstances. It also says no one in Bern.
has understood him and to posterity, who adores him? The use of trinkets and design products - subsumed under the heading "Afterlife" - the Creator now degraded in any case even the designers of his visual ideas. The "timpani player" from the death in 1940 as a nice rug patterns, clover fish on pillowcases, Klee on wallpaper, vases, T-shirts. What the Klee center of all collected.
www.badische-zeitung.de 28/10/2009
Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
Paul Klee. Life and afterlife
09/19/2009 - 05/24/2010 Tue to Sun 10-17 Clock
showroom EC
www.paulkleezentrum.ch
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