His (Klee's) small paintings, drawings and prints are intimate in scale, private and delicate in message. Their imaginative themes are developed with disarming lightness, but also with such subtlety that each work requires a careful and thoughful reading when it is seen for the first time.
An extraordinay formal inventiveness and control is the balancing factor in Klee's art. As an accomplished musician, he was particularly sensitive to linear inter-relations, constructing line patterns and directions that have the quality of melodies.
His art studies began in Munich in 1898, where he later returned and met Kandinsky and the German painters who, together, founded the famous Blue Rider group in 1912.
The historic Bauhaus school was formed in Weimar in 1920,... Klee emained with the Bauhaus through 1928... Source: Bulletin, May 1966.
Exhibition History"Degenerate Art: Censorship in Nazi Germany", Des Moines Art Center, May 9 - July 19, 1992
"Paul Klee: The Bahaus Years," Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., (exchange loan for work included in exhibition organized by the Des Moines Art Center), Sept. 18 - Oct. 28, 1973
"Paul Klee," Palis des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 1958
"Klebeetikett," Ausstellung Galerie Vomel, Düsseldorf, n.d.
Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 1931
Galerie Flechtheim, Düsseldorf, 1931
Galerie Neue Kunst Hans Goltz, Munich, 1920
Published References"Klebeetikett," Ausstellung Galerie Vomel, Düsseldorf, n. d., exh. cat. no.601
Paul Klee, catalogue raisonné, (1920.3, Denkmal des Kaisers aquarelliert Oelfarben zeichnung franzos, Ingress)
Galerie Neue Kunst Hans Golz, Munich, 1920, exh. cat. no.235
Leopold Zahan, PAUL KLEE: LEBEN GEIST WERK, Potsdam, 1920, ill. p.78
Galerie Flechtheim, Düsseldorf, 1931, exh. cat. no.73
Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf, 1931, exh. cat. no.133
DMAC Bulletin, May 1966, cover ill.
SUPPLEMENT TO THE GAZETTE DES BEAUX-ARTS, Feb. 1967, ill.
PAUL KLEE - THE BAUHAUS YEARS, Des Moines Art Center, 1973, p.7, ill. fig.4
Michele Vishny, "Paul Klee and War: A Stance of Aloofness," GAZETTE DES BEAUX-ARTS, Dec. 1978, ill. fig.4, p.238, (it is noted that there are two drawings of 1919, viz., DENKMAL DES KAISERS and ZEICHNUNG ZUM DENKMAL DES KAISERS which are in the photo archive of the Paul Klee - Stiftung in Bern)
THE NATHAN EMORY COFFIN COLLECTION, a portfolio of fifty selections from the collection, published by the Des Moines Art Center to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of Nathan Emory Coffin, 1981, color ill.
DES MOINES ART CENTER: SELECTED PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES AND WORKS ON PAPER, Des Moines Art Center, 1985, ref. pp.94 & 95, b/w ill. pl.68, p.95
Marcel Francisono, PAUL KLEE: HIS WORKS AND THOUGHT, The University of Chicago Press, 1991, b/w ill. p.224
THE EY EXHIBITION: PAUL KLEE, MAKING VISIBLE, Tate Enterprises, London, 2013, ill. pg.57
Sheet: 8 9/16 × 10 11/16 in. (21.7 × 27.1 cm)
Adolf Holzhausen
