Klee, Paul - Garden Plan - art postcard

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• Work of art title: Garden Plan / Gartenplan / Plan d'un jardin
• Artist (if known): painting
• Media or other details:  painting
• Publisher / Gallery: Franz Hanfstangel
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Paul Klee (German: [pa??l 'kle?]; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-German painter. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. 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 for the Renaissance.^[1][2][3] He and his colleague, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture. His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.

Paul Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, as the second child of German music teacher Hans Wilhelm Klee (1849–1940) and Swiss singer Ida Marie Klee, née Frick (1855–1921).^[a] His sister Mathilde (died 6 December 1953) was born on 28 January 1876 in Walzenhausen. Their father came from Tann and studied at the Stuttgart Conservatory singing, piano, organ and violin, meeting there his future wife Ida Frick. Hans Wilhelm Klee was active as a music teacher at the Bern State Seminary in Hofwil near Bern until 1931. Klee was able to develop his music skills as his parents encouraged and inspired him until his death.^[5] In 1880, his family moved to Bern, where they moved 17 years later after numerous changes of residence into a house at the Kirchenfeld district.^[6] From 1886 to 1890, Klee visited primary school and received, at the age of 7, violin classes at the Municipal Music School. He was so talented on violin that, aged 11, he received an invitation to play as an extraordinary member of the Bern Music Association.^[7]

In his early years, following his parents’ wishes, Klee focused on becoming a musician; but he decided on the visual arts during his teen years, partly out of rebellion and partly because of a belief that modern music lacked meaning for him. He stated, ""I didn't find the idea of going in for music creatively particularly attractive in view of the decline in the history of musical achievement.""^[8] As a musician, he played and felt emotionally bound to traditional works of the eighteenth and nineteenth century, but as an artist he craved the freedom to explore radical ideas and styles.^[8] At sixteen, Klee’s landscape drawings already show considerable skill.^[9]

Around 1897, Klee started his diary, which he kept until 1918, and which has provided scholars with valuable insight into his life and thinking.^[10] During his school years, he avidly drew in his school books, in particular drawing caricatures, and already demonstrating skill with line and volume.^[11] He barely passed his final exams at the ""Gymnasium"" of Bern, where he qualified in the Humanities. With his characteristic dry wit, he wrote, ""After all, it’s rather difficult to achieve the exact minimum, and it involves risks.""^[12] On his own time, in addition to his deep interests in music and art, Klee was a great reader of literature, and later a writer on art theory and aesthetics.^[13]

With his parents' reluctant permission, in 1898 Klee began studying art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Heinrich Knirr and Franz von Stuck. He excelled at drawing but seemed to lack any natural color sense. He later recalled, ""During the third winter I even realized that I probably would never learn to paint.""^[12] During these times of youthful adventure, Klee spent much time in pubs and had affairs with lower class women and artists' models. He had an illegitimate son in 1900 who died several weeks after birth.^[14]

After receiving his Fine Arts degree, Klee went to Italy from October 1901 to May 1902^[15] with friend Hermann Haller. They stayed in Rome, Florence, and Naples, and studied the master painters of past centuries.^[14] He exclaimed, ""The Forum and the Vatican have spoken to me. Humanism wants to suffocate me.""^[16] He responded to the colors of Italy, but sadly noted, ""that a long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color.""^[17] For Klee, color represented the optimism and nobility in art, and a hope for relief from the pessimistic nature he expressed in his black-and-white grotesques and satires.^[17] Returning to Bern, he lived with his parents for several years, and took occasional art classes. By 1905, he was developing some experimental techniques, including drawing with a needle on a blackened pane of glass, resulting in fifty-seven works including his Portrait of My Father (1906).^[11] In the years 1903-5 he also completed a cycle of eleven zinc-plate etchings called Inventions, his first exhibited works, in which he illustrated several grotesque characters.^[14][18] He commented, ""though I'm fairly satisfied with my etchings I can't go on like this. I’m not a specialist.""^[19] Klee was still dividing his time with music, playing the violin in an orchestra and writing concert and theater reviews.^[20]

In 1919, Klee applied for a teaching post at the Academy of Art in Stuttgart.^[41] This attempt failed but he had a major success in securing a three-year contract (with a minimum annual income) with dealer Hans Goltz, whose influential gallery gave Klee major exposure, and some commercial success. A retrospective of over 300 works in 1920 was also notable.^[42]

Klee taught at the Bauhaus from January 1921 to April 1931.^[43] He was a ""Form"" master in the bookbinding, stained glass, and mural painting workshops and was provided with two studios.^[44] In 1922, Kandinsky joined the staff and resumed his friendship with Klee. Later that year the first Bauhaus exhibition and festival was held, for which Klee created several of the advertising materials.^[45] Klee welcomed that there were many conflicting theories and opinions within the Bauhaus: ""I also approve of these forces competing one with the other if the result is achievement.""^[46]

Klee was also a member of Die Blaue Vier (The Blue Four), with Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, and Alexej von Jawlensky; formed in 1923, they lectured and exhibited together in the USA in 1925. That same year, Klee had his first exhibits in Paris, and he became a hit with the French Surrealists.^[47] Klee visited Egypt in 1928, which impressed him less than Tunisia. In 1929, the first major monograph on Klee's work was published, written by Will Grohmann.^[48]

Klee also taught at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1931 to 1933, and was singled out by a Nazi newspaper, ""Then that great fellow Klee comes onto the scene, already famed as a Bauhaus teacher in Dessau. He tells everyone he's a thoroughbred Arab, but he's a typical Galician Jew.""^[49] His home was searched by the Gestapo and he was fired from his job.^[3][50] His self-portrait Struck from the List (1933) commemorates the sad occasion.^[49] In 1933-4, Klee had shows in London and Paris, and finally met Pablo Picasso, whom he greatly admired.^[51] The Klee family emigrated to Switzerland in late 1933.^[51]

Klee was at the peak of his creative output. His Ad Parnassum (1932) is considered his masterpiece and the best example of his pointillist style; it is also one of his largest, most finely worked paintings.^[52][53] He produced nearly 500 works in 1933 during his last year in Germany.^[54] However, in 1933, Klee began experiencing the symptoms of what was diagnosed as scleroderma after his death. The progression of his fatal disease, which made swallowing very difficult, can be followed through the art he created in his last years. His output in 1936 was only 25 pictures. In the later 1930s, his health recovered somewhat and he was encouraged by a visit from Kandinsky and Picasso.^[55] Klee's simpler and larger designs enabled him to keep up his output in his final years, and in 1939 he created over 1,200 works, a career high for one year.^[56] He used heavier lines and mainly geometric forms with fewer but larger blocks of color. His varied color palettes, some with bright colors and others sober, perhaps reflected his alternating moods of optimism and pessimism.^[57] Back in Germany in 1937, seventeen of Klee's pictures were included in an exhibition of ""Degenerate art"" and 102 of his works in public collections were seized by the Nazis.^[58]

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