Back in print, the most authoritative overview on the beloved Bauhaus Renaissance man and pioneer of abstraction, the first artist to take a line for a walk

The many books on Paul Klee (1879-1940) published over the years should not obscure the fact that there has been no new, comprehensive Klee overview since Will Grohmann's oft-reprinted 1954 monograph. With Paul Klee: Life and Work, the Zentrum Paul Klee has set out to fill this gap, drawing on a wealth of new resources including the Klee family's archives, much of which is published here for the first time.

Life and work are truly integrated in this massive, 344-page volume: Klee's vast body of work is surveyed chronologically, as the book narrates his life alongside the abundant reproductions of drawings, paintings, watercolors, sculptures, puppets and numerous archival documents and photographs (nearly 500 reproductions in total).

The book divides Klee's career into eight periods: Childhood and Youth; Munich and the Encounter with the Avant Garde; World War I and the Breakthrough to Success; At the Bauhaus in Weimar; Master of Modern Art; The Move to Dusseldorf and the Nazi Rise to Power; First Years of Emigration in Bern; and Final Years.

The result of many years of research and labor, this magisterial publication demonstrates conclusively why Klee numbers among the most influential and best-loved artists of the past 100 years.

The second installation in the Bauhausbücher facsimile series, presenting Paul Klee's legendary Pedagogical Sketchbook

Active at the Bauhaus between 1920 and 1931, teaching in the bookbinding, stained glass and mural-painting workshops, Paul Klee (1879-1940) brought his expressive blend of color and line to the school--and, with the second volume in the Bauhausbücher series, beyond its walls.

In his legendary Pedagogical Sketchbook, Klee presents his theoretical approach to drawing using geometric shapes and lines. Evincing a desire to reunite artistic design and craft, and written in a tone that oscillates between the seeming objectivity of the diagram, the rhetoric of science and mathematics, and an abstract, quasi-mystical intuition, Klee's text expresses key aspects of the Bauhaus' pedagogy and guiding philosophies. And while Klee's method is deeply personal, in the context of the fundamentally multivocal Bauhaus, his individual approach to abstract form is typical in its idiosyncrasy. In the Pedagogical Sketchbook, Klee presents his own theories about the relationships between line, form, surface, color, space and time in art in the context of the Bauhaus. The book testifies to Klee's intensive theoretical explorations of art and exemplifies how the Bauhaus masters interconnected the various realms of art and design.

In the present volume, the 1953 English translation of Pedagogical Sketchbook by Sibyl Moholy-Nagy is combined with the design and physical qualities of the original German edition from 1925.

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. These abilities have left their record in the four intimate Diaries in which he faithfully recorded the events of his inner and outer life from his nineteenth to his fortieth year. Here, together with recollections of his childhood in Bern, his relations with his family and such friends as Kandinsky, Marc, Macke, and many others, his observations on nature and people, his trips to Italy and Tunisia, and his military service, the reader will find Klee's crucial experience with literature and music, as well as many of his essential ideas about his own artistic technique and the creative process.

Paul Klee: The Abstract Dimension examines a previously little-explored aspect of the artist's oeuvre.

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Among the nearly 10,000 works Klee created in the course of his career are some of the most pioneering and influential examples of modernist abstraction--works that continue to resonate today.

Starting in 1913, this book presents around 100 works from all periods of Klee's career, reproducing paintings and drawings from numerous renowned institutions and private collections in Europe and overseas. The works are grouped under four themes--nature, architecture, painting and graphic characters--that show how Klee constantly oscillated between the semi-representational and the absolute abstract.

Paul Klee (1879-1940) was born in Switzerland and studied at Munich's Academy of Fine Arts. Klee participated in several exhibitions between 1911 and 1913, but the breakthrough in his career was a 1914 trip to Tunis with August Macke and Louis Moillet, after which he painted his first abstract work. From 1919 he was represented by influential dealer Hans Goltz. Klee taught at the Bauhaus from 1921 to 1931; when the ascent of Nazism forced the closure of the Bauhaus, Klee emigrated to Switzerland. Although still working, he was in ill health until his death in 1940.

Paul Klee (1879-1940) was an extraordinary draftsman, printmaker, teacher and theoretician with a singular style whose work greatly impacted the development of twentieth-century art. Klee's prints demonstrate, more fully than his works in any other medium, his remarkable evolution from a traditionalist to one of the most daring innovators of modern art. This limited-edition facsimile of The Prints of Paul Klee, originally published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1947, presents 40 of Klee's etchings and lithographs from MoMA's collection, ranging in date from 1903 to 1931 and each printed on a separate sheet of stiff card, eight of which are in color. Accompanied by a 40-page booklet featuring an essay by James Thrall Soby (then Chairman of the museum's Department of Painting and Sculpture), and a new text by Christophe Cherix, MoMA's Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books, the prints are encased in a cloth-covered and ribbon-bound box. This unique and luxurious portfolio is being reissued for the first time since its original publication, and is available in a limited edition of 2,000 numbered copies.

This catalog, for the first time, highlights the relationships and affinities between Swiss-German painter Paul Klee, a leading figure in twentieth-century art, and Fausto Melotti, an Italian artist whose name has become increasingly well known at an international level in recent years, by means of a surprising dialogue between their works.

The catalog compares over seventy paintings, watercolors, and drawings by Klee with some eighty sculptures and drawings by Melotti. A large selection of critical essays and short writings by contemporary artists contribute to casting light on the relationship between these two protagonists of twentieth-century art.

Comprehensive in scope and elegant in design, Paul Klee: Bauhaus Master is a landmark publication resulting from several years of work in collaboration with the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, and based on a recent critical publication on Klee's pedagogical legacy. The book contextualizes a selection of 137 works--including paintings, watercolors and drawings, made between 1899 and 1940--with nearly 100 handwritten notes selected from classes Klee gave at the Bauhaus, alongside an extensive array of archival objects and documents ranging from archival photographs to the artist's herbaria through to his reading, sketchbooks and publications. Demonstrating the unity of Klee's art and pedagogy--the unity of his hand and mind--Bauhaus Master presents an artist thinking with and through his materials and image-making practices, endlessly testing both.

Paul Klee (1879-1940) was born in Switzerland and studied at Munich's Academy of Fine Arts. Klee participated in several exhibitions between 1911 and 1913, but the breakthrough in his career was a 1914 trip to Tunis with August Macke and Louis Moillet, after which he painted his first abstract work. From 1919 he was represented by influential dealer Hans Goltz. Klee taught at the Bauhaus from 1921 to 1931; when the ascent of Nazism forced the closure of the Bauhaus, Klee emigrated to Switzerland. Although still working, he was in ill health until his death in 1940.

Paul Klees Form- und Gestaltungslehre wird hier erstmals in ihrer ganzen Spannweite durch das elementare, inhaltliche und stilistische Gebiet veroffentlicht. Aus der Fulle seiner Aufzeichnungen, den Ordnungsweisen seines Denkens offnet sich, uber jede Interpretation hinaus, ein neuer Zugang zu seinem bildnerischen Werk. Zu den schriftlich-theoretischen Erlauterungen und seinen Bildanalysen tritt ein weiteres Element der Klarung: Den Text begleiten zeichnerische Darstellungen zur Verdeutlichung der Zusammenhange. Von einfachen Formen bis zur vielschichtigen Verknupfung von Bildelementen steht die Bewegung im Mittelpunkt seines Form-Denkens. Die hier vorliegenden optischen Grundlagen seiner Formlehre ordnen sich in eindrucklicher Weise zu einer Wegleitung in die Welt seiner Bilder.

Das Skizzenbuch, die ursprungliche Grundlage zu einem Teil des theoretischen Unterrichts am Staatlichen Bauhaus zu Weimar, bildete einen wesentlichen Bestandteil der kunstlerisch-didaktischen Konzeption Klees und des Instituts. Spater erschien sein 'Padagogisches Skizzenbuch' in mehreren englischen Ubertragungen. Es besteht aus gezeichneten Tafeln oder Diagrammen mit erlauternden Beischriften. Die deutsche Originalfassung wurde nicht wieder aufgelegt. Hier ist sie unverandert reproduziert und um einleitende Seiten und einen deutenden Kommentar von Helene Schmidt-Nonne erganzt, die Klees Schulerin am Bauhaus war. Schmidt-Nonne folgte Klees Unterricht mehrere Jahre lang und ist mit seinen bildnerischen und padagogischen Intentionen in einem tiefen Sinn vertraut.

Paul Klee nicht nur als Kunstler besser kennen zu lernen, sondern ihn daruber hinaus als Kunstpadagogen - z.B. am Bauhaus in Weimar und Dessau - zu entdecken, ist das Ziel der vorliegenden zweibandigen Form- und Gestaltungslehre. Klees Kunsttheorie wird hier erstmals in ihrer ganzen Spannweite durch das elementare, inhaltliche und stilistische Gebiet veroffentlicht. Von einfachen Formen bis zur vielschichtigen Verknupfung von Bildelementen steht die Bewegung im Mittelpunkt seines Form-Denkens. Die hier vorliegenden optischen Grundlagen seiner Formlehre ordnen sich in eindrucklicher Weise zu einer Wegleitung in die Welt seiner Bilder. Zu den theoretischen Erlauterungen und seinen Bildanalysen tritt ein weiteres Element der Klarung: Die zeichnerischen Darstellungen zur Verdeutlichung der Zusammenhange. Sprache und Bild stutzen sich und erhellen organisch die Ubereinstimmung seiner Denk- und Gestaltungsmethoden.

Die Germanen und ihre gro e Geschichte bietet eine faszinierende Reise in die Welt der Germanen, einem antiken Volk von gro er Bedeutung. Dieses Buch enthüllt ihre Kultur, Gesellschaft, Kriege und ihre Beiträge zur europäischen Geschichte. Von den berühmten Stämmen wie den Sueben bis zu ihrem Einfluss auf das Römische Reich - eine spannende Entdeckungsreise in die Vergangenheit.

Die Germanen und ihre gro e Geschichte bietet eine faszinierende Reise in die Welt der Germanen, einem antiken Volk von gro er Bedeutung. Dieses Buch enthüllt ihre Kultur, Gesellschaft, Kriege und ihre Beiträge zur europäischen Geschichte. Von den berühmten Stämmen wie den Sueben bis zu ihrem Einfluss auf das Römische Reich - eine spannende Entdeckungsreise in die Vergangenheit.