Paul Klee: Erinnerung an einen Gart, 1914

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 household: beef bones and electrical outlets, bristle brushes, leftover bits of fur and nutshells. Soon he began to ...more

Now available in a flexi format, this dazzling monograph features some of Klee's favorite works, created during his most productive artistic period. As an avant-garde artist of the twentieth century, painter Paul Klee's work defies classification. What is indisputable, however, is its originality and brilliance. Taken from the artist's most ...more

With the help of amusing questions and comments from children, the viewer's eyes are taken on a tour of Klee's pictures. 'Dreaming Pictures' provides an insight into the artist's composition, unlocking the paintings' mysteries and revealing the pleasures to be found by entering Klee's dream world. ...more

Many call Paul Klee a magician. He was no such thing; he did not conjure up anything. He was a creator who found beauty in the world around him, wrote one of Klee's students from the legendary Bauhaus. The Swiss-born painter, like many of his contemporaries--Kandinsky among them--was interested in ...more

Paul Klee was endowed with a rice 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. These abilities have left their record in the four intimate Diaries in which ...more

Few modern artists captivate young audiences as much as Paul Klee, whose whimsical drawings and paintings are both childlike and sophisticated, filled with joy, color, and humor. Among the most beloved of his works are those in which animals - birds, fish, cats, and others - seem to frolic across ...more

A broad selection of representative color reproductions presented with individual analysis and supplemented with a brief biography. ...more

From Choice: This in-depth study of the influence of Paul Klee on American artists, collectors, and curators provides informative, illuminating, and innovative additions to the transatlantic dialogue of pre-sixties US art. In the excellent exhibition catalogue, seven original essays and perceptive catalog entries...greatly enhance the exhibition's intellectual component. (Includes) beautiful ...more

Paul Klee's launched his artistic career in Munich, where he began to study painting in 1898. This volume picks up in 1913 after the artist shifted from line drawings and etchings to color and began moving toward the distinctive painting style for which he is so well known. It includes ...more