At the time around 1919, after his experiences in the 1st World War and his first successes in the art market, Paul Klee took up the theme of personal awareness and self-reflection in numerous self-portraits. The best known of these is the penc

Paul Klee - Hungry Girl, 1939

Mar 17th, 2017 3m 3s

You would not want to meet Paul Klee’s "hungry girl" from 1939 in a dark alley at night. It shows a girl as a tooth-baring beast with glaring eyes. Nothing remains of a human being, let alone a sweet little girl. Its whole appearance is animal-

Paul Klee - Puppet on violet ribbons, 1906

Mar 17th, 2017 2m 10s

The doll with purple ribbons appears strange. The androgynous mixed being seems to float in space as though directed by an invisible hand. For the first time in Klees work a humanlike figure is shown as a marionette, a motive which in his later

Paul Klee - Puppet Theatre, 1923

Mar 17th, 2017 2m 8s

Like Picasso, Klee was also seeking for simple, modern means of expression. But unlike Picasso, who was impressed by the magical charm of «primitive» sculpture, Klee discovered the original sources of art in his own childrens drawings. Initiall

Paul Klee - Room Perspective with inhabitants, 1921

Mar 17th, 2017 3m 2s

Paul Klee only rarely took an interest in perspectival constructions of spaces, architectures and places. Very early in his work, rather than traditional central perspective, he opted for free methods of construction which were inspired above a

Paul Klee - Cosmic Flora, 1923

Mar 17th, 2017 3m 10s

Depictions of nature appear in Paul Klee’s work from his earliest drawings in the sketchbooks of his youth to the last year of his life. Nature, growth and plants in general are a core theme in Klee’s thought and artistic work. In his 1925 essa

Paul Klee - Forgetful Angel, 1939

Mar 17th, 2017 2m 59s

Paul Klee drew this «Forgetful angel» in 1939 with very few pencil lines. It is one of over 35 depictions of angels from the last years of the artist’s life and work. In their appearance they correspond entirely to our traditional ideas of gent

Paul Klee - Untitled(Composition with Fruits), around 1940

Mar 17th, 2017 3m 33s

This large-format drawing on packing paper is one of the last works that Paul Klee produced. Klee’s health deteriorated in early 1940. In May he went for a spa cure in Ascona, from which he did not return. Some of his works remained incomplete,

Paul Klee - Beginning of a Poem, 1938

Mar 17th, 2017 4m

In 1938, two years before his death, Klee worked intensively with writing, characters and generally sign-like pictorial elements. He produced several works with the title «Alphabet», in which a pile of letters is scattered apparently at random

Paul Klee - Insula dulcamara, 1938

Mar 17th, 2017 3m 44s

This picture is the largest painting Paul Klee ever completed with the remarkable length of 176 cms. As is typical for this period Klee used newspaper which he glued onto jute. With colour paste he painted thick black stripes directly onto the

Paul Klee - la belle jardinière, 1939

Mar 17th, 2017 2m 20s

The picture «la belle jardinière», also known as «a bourgeois ghost», is a staging of surreal amusement. The schematic figure made up of red and blue lines, ironically titled by Paul Klee, the beautiful gardener in crinoline, holds in her raise

Paul Klee - Individualized Altimetry of Layers, 1930

Mar 17th, 2017 1m 59s

Even though the picture «Individualized Altimetry of Layers» was only created in 1930, it nevertheless indicates a direct relationship in its formal structure to the Egyptian water colours. The composition is divided into twelve horizontal stri

Paul Klee - High spirits, 1939

Jul 8th, 2014 2m 56s

The picture was painted in 1939, when Paul Klee was driven from his position at the Düsseldorf Academy and living again in Berne. It is not unlikely, that Klee in this picture of the high-spirited was alluding to the National Socialists in Germ

Paul Klee - Pomona, overripe, 1938

Jul 8th, 2014 3m 26s

The period in which the painting „Pomona, overripe“ was created can also be seen as a specially fertile time: As a result of his illness with progressive scleroderma Klee was only able to execute 25 works in 1936, and yet the following year was

Paul Klee - The creator, 1934

Jul 8th, 2014 2m 58s

Paul Klee entered the painting "The creator", in his oeuvre catalogue in 1934 under number 213. Next to the entry, he wrote: "not touched for several years". Klee frequently left paintings sitting in his studio for long periods, only to pull th

Paul Klee - Struck from the list, 1933

Jul 8th, 2014 3m 54s

Paul Klee returned to Berne, the city of his childhood and youth, on the 23rd December 1933. This was not done willingly, but was the enforced reaction to the accession to power by the National Socialists in Germany. From the beginning Paul and

Paul Klee- With the eagle, 1918

Jul 8th, 2014 4m 4s

Until December 1918 Klee is in wartime service in Gersthofen and is not released until February 1919. During the last three war years Klee experiences a productive work phase, which stands in crass antithesis to the circumstances all around. Th

Paul Klee - Untitled (Genie of the matchbox), 1925

Jul 8th, 2014 2m 22s

They were made of plaster and were called "Mr. Death", "Kasperl", "Gretl, his wife", "Sepperl, his best friend", "the Devil", and "the Policeman2. With one exception, they were all destroyed in bombing in Würzburg in 1945.

Paul Klee - Before the gates of Kairouan, 1914

Jul 8th, 2014 3m 31s

The view of the city turns into a play of simple square shaped areas and shades of colour casually laid upon each other. From this point it was just a small step to the water colours of pure coloured squares which were created on his return and

Paul Klee - Bucket and watering can, 1910

Jul 8th, 2014 2m 57s

In his black watercolours he laid layer after layer of black, almost transparent paint on the paper and in the superimposition of the layers he achieved a nuanced gradation of light and ark. In "Bucket and watering can", 1910, he continued this

Paul Klee - Red and yellow houses in Tunis, 1914

Jul 8th, 2014 3m 4s

As architecture follows certain patterns, structures and rules, mostly in geometrical forms, the structure of a painting should do the same. At first glance the motif breaks down into many coloured planes. A particular pattern slowly appears, s

Paul Klee - Carpet of memory, 1914

Jul 8th, 2014 2m 50s

Klee painted the first version in 1914, after the beginning of the First World War and the sudden death of August Macke. Until its completion in 1921 Klee reworked the picture repeatedly.

Paul Klee - Once emerged from the gray of night..., 1918

Jul 8th, 2014 3m 32s

The water colour was done at the beginning of 1918, at a time when Klee, as he noted in his diary, was reading a great many poems to escape from the depressing everyday existence of his wartime service. The origin of this poem is unknown. Proba

Paul Klee - Landscape near E. (in Bavaria), 1921

Jul 8th, 2014 2m 57s

The E is interpreted partly as an abbreviation for the Bavarian town of Ebenhausen, but in Klee’s work such a pictorial element need not necessarily assume a particular meaning. By incorporating individual letters Klee complements his pictorial

Paul Klee - Portrait of an emotional lady, 1906

Oct 13th, 2011 3m 1s

In the summer of 1905, Klee started using a new medium: blackened sheets of glass, which he worked on with a needle. Using the resistance of this unusual medium, he discovered a new form of artistic expression - the scratched drawing. In his di