Sunday, July 31, 2022

ZPK Exhibit: Klee Considers Death

 


Paul Klee, Ohne Titel (Todesangel)/Untitled (Angel of Death); 1940; oil paint on canvas        Painted shortly before his death....





Paul Klee, Genien/Genies (Figures out of a ballet); 1922; ink, watercolor and pencil on paper on cardboard




Paul Klee, Friedhof/Cemetery; 1920; oil paint and ink on linen



Traces of painting done by Paul  Klee called "Girl Dies and Becomes."
It is suspected that Paul Klee drew this design after a young woman, close friend of the family, drowned in 1933.  She had given her cat Bimbo to the Klee family.  After doing these sketches Paul Klee painted over them and used the other side of the canvas.  "Girl Dies and Becomes" was only discovered in 1990 when the covering paint fell off.  This story is told in a recent exhibition at the Zentrum Paul Klee:  "A Shining Secret.  Kids Curate Klee."
https://www.zpk.org/admin/data/hosts/zpk/files/page_editorial_link/file_en/228/kinder-kuratieren-klee_ausstellungsfuehrer_en_web.pdf?lm=1653039809




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