Paul Klee: 8 works

'Art does not reproduce the visible but makes visible', wrote Klee in 1918, articulating one of his fundamental artistic premises in the essay 'Creative Credo'.'

'Klee's abstract figural forms humorously suggest the psychological realities of human nature.'

'The 'oil-paint drawing' was a special transfer technique that Klee developed in 1919, and which allowed him to transfer drawings onto a prepared ground.'

'In Fish Magic, Paul Klee creates a magical realm where the aquatic, the celestial, and the earthly intermingle.'

'Alternately whimsical and spiritual, playful and rigorous, no other figure moved so effortlessly between such a variety of styles, subjects, and media as Klee. From 1898 to 1901, Klee studied in Munich, first with Heinrich Knirr, then at the Kunstakademie under Franz von Stuck.'

'Klee's playful depiction of a solitary dog baying at a radiant moon exemplifies the artist's reliance on a linear style of representation.'

'Having studied in Munich, Klee joined Kandinsky's group, Der Blaue Reiter.'