The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918

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This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. More recently, the Zentrum Paul Klee digitized almost 3,900 pages of the personal notebooks which Klee used as a source for his lectures on Bauhaus between 1921 and 1931.

The progression of his fatal disease, which made swallowing very difficult, can be followed through the art he created in his last years. He used canvas, burlap, muslin, linen, gauze, cardboard, metal foils, fabric, wallpaper, and newsprint. With his characteristic dry wit, he wrote, "After all, it's rather difficult to achieve the exact minimum, and it involves risks. Paul Klee was endowed with a rich and many-sided personality that was continually spilling over into forms of expression other than his painting and that made him one of the most extraordinary phenomena of modern European art. Initially planned to be released in 1911, the release date of the Der Blau Reiter almanac by Kandinsky and Marc was delayed in May 1912, including the reproduced ink drawing Steinhauer by Klee.Klee was still dividing his time with music, playing the violin in an orchestra and writing concert and theater reviews. One of abstraction in which the figurative elements never disappear completely and there are small, tiny living entities within the colored transparencies of each drawing. Klee did not attend it, but in the second exhibition, which occurred from 12 February to 18 March 1912 in the Galerie Goltz, 17 of his graphic works were shown. Actually, the main thing now is not to paint precociously b to be or, at least, to become an individual.

In 1995 the Greek experimental filmmaker, Kostas Sfikas, created a film based entirely on Paul Klee's paintings. Tell us why you liked or disliked the book; using examples and comparisons is a great way to do this. The German draft made Klee a Private in the Kaiser's Army, and suddenly his observations about life become focused and concrete. Pieces on Paul Klee is the title of the debut album by the Ensemble Sortisatio, recorded February and March 2002 in Leipzig and August 2002 in Lucerne, Switzerland.He was very, very lucky, and assigned first to work maintaining airplanes--well, painting them, because when he signed up he said he was a painter. My biggest surprise was however is that his life was not as unfamiliar as i expected: not much changed from the human point of view. More than 10,000 paintings, drawings, and etchings, including Angelus Novus (1920), Twittering Machine (1922), Fish Magic (1925), Viaducts Break Ranks (1937).