Paul Klee

Original Price: $55.00 UP TO 20% ADDITIONAL SAVINGS FOR MEMBERS Edited by Josef Helfenstein and Elizabeth Hutton Turner Paul Klee was a leading figure in European Modernism, and his acclaim at home was quickly matched in the United States, where both private collectors and major museums sought out his work. Klee and America explores the reasons for that enthusiastic reception, especially during the 1930s and 1940s while the artist was being targeted in Hitler's campaign against "Degenerate Art". This catalogue presents an impressive selection of Klee's finest "American" works from that period, including both paintings and drawings. Hardcover320 pagesNeue Galerie New YorkThe Menil Collection, 200711.6 x 9.3 x 1.6 inchesISBN 9781931794145Neue Exhibition Catalogue, Artist Monograph, Art History, Essays

Klee and America

Edited by Renée PriceWith this exhibition, Neue Galerie New York pays tribute to its cofounder, Serge Sabarsky. A tireless advocate for German and Austrian art, Sabarsky was the driving force behind the creation of the museum. He was also a dedicated collector, who acquired numerous masterworks by the artists he cherished.The catalog demonstrates the range and quality of the Sabarsky Collection, with its holdings in works by Austrian artists Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Oskar Kokoschka, and German artists Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, among many others. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock.Hardcover124 pagesNeue Galerie New YorkPrestel, 20099.1 x 6.6 x 1.1 inchesISBN 9781931794244Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue

From Klimt to Klee: Masterworks from the Serge Sabarsky Collection

Edited by Pamela Kort Filled with irreverent wit, comical elements, and absurdist humor, the comic-grotesque has fascinated artists since ancient times. However, it was not until the late nineteenth century that it reemerged as a novel modernist method. This catalog begins with Arnold Böcklin's comic-grotesque pictorial compositions, and brings together a dazzling array of artists-including Paul Klee, Max Klinger, Alfred Kubin, Emil Nolde, and Max Ernst-who, inspired by his example, forged a unique aesthetic with enormous consequences for modern German art. Essays consider the connection between the visual arts and the rise of cabaret culture and satirical journals. In addition, the authors examine the legacy of the comic-grotesque in relation to the denunciation of Böcklin's art and its eventual reemergence in the work of the Dadaists. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock.Hardcover208 pagesNeue Galerie New YorkPrestel, 200411.5 x 9.6 x 1 inchesISBN 9783791331959Neue Galerie Exhibition Catalogue, Modernism, Dadaism, Essays

Comic Grotesque: Wit and Mockery in German Art, 1870-1940

By Christophe Cherix and James Thrall SobyPaul 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.BOOK FORMATBoxed, 9.5 x 12.75 inches40 page booklet | 40 unbound sheets, 8 color; 32 bw ISBN 9780870708916Production Prints, Limited Edition, Printmaking

The Prints of Paul Klee

By Jenny Anger "For scholars steeped in the modernist distinction between art and the decorative, Paul Klee and the Decorative in Modern Art offers a unique opportunity to consider the investment in the notion of purity essential to this distinction and the hierarchies of artistic practice, gender and race it fosters. Above and beyond Anger's book's value as a revisionist history of Klee or a detailed history of the decorative's rise and decline in the early twentieth century is tis presentation of a long-overdue study that confronts the issue of hierarchy in the arts under modernism and its consequences."―Elissa Auther, CAA ReviewsOne of the goals of Modernism was the presentation of the essence of art, or pure form. Encouraged by theorists, modern artists found pure form in ornament which, though promising, was sullied by connotations of materiality, domesticity, and femininity. Jenny Anger demonstrates that the decorative significantly informed Paul Klee's art. She compares his work to that of another major modernist, Henri Matisse, to confirm the critical role of the decorative in Modernism. Anger also explores the relevance of the decorative for contemporary and, especially, women artists. Please note that Rare/Out-of-Print titles are very limited in stock.Hardcover342 pages Cambridge University Press, 200410.2 x 7.1 x 0.8 inchesISBN 9780521822503Artist Monograph, Art History, Essay, Modernism

Paul Klee and the Decorative in Modern Art

Edited by Lars Müller 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. Hardcover56 pagesLARS MÜLLER PUBLISHERS, 20197 x 9 inchesISBN 9783037785850Artist Monograph, Theory, Bauhaus

Paul Klee: Pedagogical Sketchbook (Bauhausbücher 2)

Born in 1879 near Bern, Switzerland, Paul Klee was part poet and visionary, part disciplined craftsman and well-regarded bourgeois. The son of a music teacher, Klee learned to play the violin to near-professional standard. This early musical training would influence his artistic theories and practice for the rest of his career. Klee joined the Bauhaus in 1920, which was the perfect theatre to unfold his teaching methods; an art school devoted to re-uniting the fine and applied arts, and architecture, in a manner suitable for an industrial age. From 1933 until his death in 1940, a progressive simplification of his means accompanied a progressively more intense and powerful expression. The works of Klee have been of enormous importance in the development of modern art; at a time of uncertainty and loss of direction in art, he was a source of confidence and admiration. 50 minutesColorRegion 1/NTSCEnglish KulturISBN 9780769726632

Paul Klee: Artists of the 20th Century [DVD]

Big art for little hands, these enchanting activity books allow young artists to explore the world's masterpieces on their own terms and with plenty of space to color outside the lines. Paperback32 pages10.8 x 0.2 x 9.2 inchesPrestel JuniorAge range: 6-9 yearsISBN 9783791341057Activity Book

Paul Klee Coloring Book

Paul Klee (1879-1940)Gay Repast/Colorful Meal, 19281 notecard and envelope4 ¼ x 6 inches

Paul Klee: Gay Repast/Colorful Meal, 1928 [Single Card]

Paul Klee (1879-1940)On the Lawn, 19231 notecard and envelope4 ¼ x 6 inches

Paul Klee: On the Lawn, 1923 [Single Card]

Paul Klee (1879-1940)Yellow House, 19151 notecard and envelope4 ¼ x 6 inches

Paul Klee: Yellow House, 1915 [Single Card]

Paul Klee (1879-1940) On the Lawn (Auf der Wiese), 1923

Paul Klee: On the Lawn [Postcard]

By Paul KleeTexts by Michael Baumgartner, Dr. Christine Hopfengart, Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Osamu Okuda 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" Paul Klee (1879-1940) is one of the most important representatives of modern art. His oeuvre is as universal as it is individual, standing tall among all of the currents and "isms" of his day. His overwhelming body of paintings, drawings, and other visual works; his letters, journal entries, and, last but not least, his teaching notes form the background for this pointed depiction of the life and work of the meditative artist and visual thinker. This richly illustrated volume traces Klee's eventful biography, ranging from his artistic beginnings with caricature-like drawings and nudes, his encounter with the avant-garde and the famous watercolors from his journey to Tunisia, the abstract color compositions from the Bauhaus era, to the mysterious, inventive images of his last years in Bern. Hardcover344 pages, 488 photosHatje Cantz, 202010.1 x 11.7 inchesISBN 9783775747196Monographs

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