Felix Klee Boeken

Between 1916 and 1925 Paul Klee (1879-1940) made some 50 hand puppets for his son, Felix, of which 30 are still in existence. For the heads, he used materials from his own beef bones and electrical outlets, bristle brushes, leftover bits of fur and nutshells. Soon he began to sew costumes. These characters and small works, do not pretend to be great art, but at the same time, they are superbly imaginative, sweetly reminiscent of Klee's relationships with his family, and beautifully illustrative of the artistic and social developments of the time. Readers will see the chronological proximity of Dada and Kurt Schwitters's collages in Klee's Matchbox Ghost; the German National caricatures one of the era's more ominous political types. An introductory essay tracks the work's links to other avant-garde puppetry and to Klee's sculptural works, and notes his connections to the theater. For their part, Klee's son Felix and his grandson Alexander tell the story of how the figures were created.

Including more than 200 examples of both popular and lesser known works from private collections, this book captures all periods of Klee's oeuvre, representing each stylistic metamorphosis and painting technique used by the artist. The "Klee universe" opens up profoundly in all its depth.

Paul Klee is indisputably one of the 20th century's most important and admired artists. Along with an in-depth biography, three essays examine his versatility, place him in context with his contemporaries and discuss his process for cataloguing his works.

Active at the Bauhaus between 1920 and 1931, teaching in the bookbinding, stained glass and mural-painting workshops, Paul Klee (1879-1940) brought his expressive blend of color and line to the school--and, with the second volume in the Bauhausbücher series, beyond its walls. In his legendary Pedagogical Sketchbook, Klee presents his theoretical approach to drawing using geometric shapes and lines. Evincing a desire to reunite artistic design and craft, and written in a tone that oscillates between the seeming objectivity of the diagram, the rhetoric of science and mathematics, and an abstract, quasi-mystical intuition, Klee's text expresses key aspects of the Bauhaus' pedagogy and guiding philosophies. And while Klee's method is deeply personal, in the context of the fundamentally multivocal Bauhaus, his individual approach to abstract form is typical in its idiosyncrasy. In the Pedagogical Sketchbook, Klee presents his own theories about the relationships between line, form, surface, color, space and time in art in the context of the Bauhaus. The book testifies to Klee's intensive theoretical explorations of art and exemplifies how the Bauhaus masters interconnected the various realms of art and design. In the present volume, the 1953 English translation of Pedagogical Sketchbook by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy is combined with the design and physical qualities of the original German edition from 1925.

In this new volume, an essential group of 150 oils, watercolours, drawings and prints, representative of Klee's entire career, is released to the public for the first time.Offering new art-historical insight into Klee's career - from his early Impressionist-inspired works, through his Expressionism with Kandinsky and his Bauhaus period between the wars - this book contains the only reproduction of these important but little-known pieces collected by the Burgis, and will become essential to all enthusiasts of the art of Paul Klee and the modern period.

"Reproductions of Paul Klee's art and iconic works, as well as those that are more rarely exhibited, are featured alongside biographical information that explores his life and times. Photographs and anecdotes of Klee and his circle offer a multifaceted perspective on a groundbreaking artist and the events that helped shape his colorful, imaginative work"--OCLC

Includes the recollections of the author's childhood in Bern, his relations with his family and such friends as Kandinsky, Marc, Macke, and many others, his observations on nature and people, his trips to Italy and Tunisia, and his military service. This book also includes the author's ideas about his artistic technique and the creative process.

Paul Klee (1879–1940) zählt zu den einflussreichsten Malern der europäischen Moderne. Mit einem Œuvre von annährend 10 000 Werken wurden nicht allein zu seinen Lebzeiten zahlreiche Einzel- und Gruppenausstellungen ausgerichtet. Bis heute ist das Interesse an seinen Arbeiten unverändert hoch. Und doch: Es gab noch keine Ausstellung, die sich umfassend mit Klees Verhältnis zur Abstraktion auseinandergesetzt hat. Diese Lücke schließt die Schau der Fondation Beyeler und mit ihr der begleitende Katalog, der von aufschlussreichen Texten renommierter Autoren »untermalt« wird. Als roter Faden ziehen sich vier Themengruppen – Natur, Architektur, Malerei und Schriftzeichen – durch Klees Werk, deren Formenrepertoire immer wieder zwischen Halbgegenständlichem und absolut Abstraktem oszilliert und die hier in eigenen Kapiteln untersucht werden. So lassen sich nicht nur vertiefte Erkenntnisse über seine Beschäftigung mit der Abstraktion gewinnen, auch offenbaren sich neue Bezüge zu Zeitgenossen sowie zu Künstlern späterer Generationen. (Deutsche Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-7757-4330-3) Ausstellung: Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel 1.10.017–21.1.2018

In a tumultuous year marked by personal and global challenges, Paul Klee produced some of his most innovative art before his death in 1940. This book explores his inventive works from 1939, showcasing a variety of media that create visually striking and tactile surfaces. Klee's drawings serve as meditative reflections on life's complexities, with titles revealing his inner struggles. Art historian Dawn Ades contextualizes these pieces within their historical significance, while artist Richard Tuttle responds creatively, highlighting Klee's lasting influence on post-war artists.