Paul Klee

“We learn to see what flows beneath.
We learn the prehistory of the visible.
We learn to dig deep and to lay bare, to explain, to analyse.” Paul Klee

“The relation of art to creation is symbolic. Art is an example, just as the earthly is an example of the cosmic.”

Klee discovered for himself Ensor’s use of line as an expressionist graphic artist.

Franz von Stuck (1863-1928), the German symbolist artist, sculptor, and dynamic teacher. Stuck’s students included Josef Albers (1888-1976), the founder of Op Art, and Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), Klee’s friend thereafte

Klee seemed to see what he heard and heard what he painted. The elements and familiar traits of music (line, harmony, rhythm, tempo), as well as many of its forms (fugue, polyphony, and so forth) can be seen throughout his body of work.

In his final years, he became nearly obsessed with his research into ideographs, hieroglyphics, signs, and the cave wall markings of prehistoric times.

I am armed, I am not here,
I am in the depth, I am far away...
I glow with the dead.

Zentrum Paul Klee houses 4,000 of the most important works by Klee, as well as a wealth of biographical material.

the war began, Klee was on a two-month stay at Faoug, on Lake Murten. There he created at least 150 of the 1,253 works produced during a burst of unparalleled creativity and his most productive year by far, even though his health continued to get worse.

Picasso hated to travel, but he also visited Klee in 1937. Not surprising, the strong-willed men apparently had some disagreements during the visit. Later that same year Picasso might have recalled their relationship while painting his masterpiece, Guernica. The arrow, that symbol so beloved by Klee, is seen in the background between the hind legs of the horse in that large work. It is thought to be homage to Klee.