Aljosha Klee, Paul Klee’s grandson, says: “The partnership with David Zwirner guiding Paul Klee’s work to a new generation of artists and collectors. The first exhibition of works by the gallery is scheduled to coincide with the centenary of his birth. The founding of the Bauhaus. In September 2019, the gallery is planning a solo exhibition of Paul Klee work from the Klee collection in New York.
Paul Klee (1879-1940) is considered one of the most notable artists of the twentieth century, an artist, educator, writer and thinker who explored and expanded the realm of avant-garde art with works ranging from unconventional color grids to evocative graphic paintings. Paul Klee’s paintings are key elements in the rise of contemporary art, and his career has included several styles of the new art movements of the 20th century that Paul Klee helped develop.
He was a contemporary German-Swiss artist whose work rose to fame in the early 20th century at a time when there was a lot of development in the European art scene to attract new ideas as opposed to traditional thinking which had beginning to seem old outside of fashion and outside modern society. Paul Klee participated and was influenced by a number of artistic movements such as surrealism, cubism and expressionism.
Paul Klee was born in Lake Bucher, Munich, Switzerland. He was the second son of German music teacher Hans Wilhelm Klee (1849-1940) and Swiss singer Ida Marie Klee (1855-1921). He was influenced by expressionism. , Cubism, Surrealist theories and formalism, as well as his written collections of lectures, essays and design theories on form and design theory are as important to contemporary art as Leonardo’s academic works during the Renaissance.
Klee juggled freely between abstraction and representation, creating works that range from formal to strictly geometrical, from linear to fully chromatic, in 1940, at the Kunsthaus in Zurich, his works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes childish standpoint, as well as his personal moods and beliefs.
His mature paintings, drawings and prints distinguish between abstraction and figuration and often contain extravagant figures that are still the site of an elaborate exploration of lines, color and shape. Among his most successful early works, these sketches attempt to convey the humor and versatility of Voltaire’s satire by reducing characters, setting and details to comic series of lines.
In the years that followed, Klee faced his relative ignorance of French contemporary art and began to rank Klee among the best young German artists in 1917.
A three-year contract with art dealer Hans Goltz brought the company a reputation and commercial success. Art dealer Hans Goltz (1873-1927) received the exclusive rights to sell Cleese’s works. Presents is a work first presented in Paris and is a great success among surrealists.
He is banned from working as an artist and loses his teaching job at the Düsseldorf Academy on 21 April. Meet artists August Macke (1887-1914), Franz Mark (1880-1916), Alexei von Jawlensky (1864-1941), Gabriel Munter (1877-1962) and Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) and join the editors of the Almanac that winter… visit Paris and experience Cubist works and abstract colour compositions by Robert Delaunay (1885-1941).
It is located in the Department of Art History of Franz-Joachim Verspol and includes the private library of the book collector Rolf Sauerwein which contains around 700 works spanning over 30 years, including monographs on Klee, exhibition catalogs, extensive secondary literature and original illustrated numbers, a postcard and a signed photographic portrait of Klee.
In these images, you will find watercolors, oil paintings, drawings, dolls and more. Among his mediums were the oils painted here mentioned as well as a large number of drawings and prints which have since attracted the interest of those who have studied his career in more detail than before.
The exhibition included seventeen paintings by Clay and other works of modern avant-garde artists such as Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky, which were taken over by the Nazis around the end of his life and have reflected in his last works.
Klee has been grouped with various expressionism, cubism, Futurism, Surrealism and Abstraction, but his depictions are difficult to categorize; typically he worked in isolation from his peers and interpreted new artistic directions in his own way. Klee worked with many different mediums: oil painting, watercolors, inks, etching and others.
In 1911 Klee approaches the avant-garde when he joins the Der Blaue Reiter circle, an artists organization founded in Munich in the same year by the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky and the German artist Franz Mark. Kandinsky then formulated his influential theory of abstract art as spiritual expression and Klee showed him to what extent abstraction and visionary approach can be taken to content. Klee also became acquainted with a wide range of French Cubist paintings from the same year.
In 1916 he joined the German war effort but due to his father’s behind the scenes maneuvers Klee was relieved from his military service and ended up painting camouflage on planes and working as a clerk, continued to paint throughout the war and managed to exhibit at several exhibitions.
