Untitled, Paul Klee
Paul Klee
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Paul Klee

Untitled, ca. 1938


Dimensions
47 x 33 cm
Physical Description
Black distemper and tempera on newspaper on cardboard
Inventory Number
LG 70
Acquisition
On permanent loan from Commerzbank AG, Frankfurt am Main since 2010
Status
On display, 1st upper level, Modern Art, room 7

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"A hovering, silent, magical apparition in the crowd" is how Klee was described by a friend during the last years of the artist's life. He had been dismissed from his post as professor in Düsseldorf in 1933 after being denounced as a "cultural Bolshevik". He left Germany and returned to Bern, where, marked by illness, he created his mysterious late works. Klee confronts the viewer with black lines on reduced patches of colour as if they were secret graphic characters from a vanished culture. There is nothing to help us interpret them - no picture title to make it easier to decipher what we see.

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15.11.2024