This attempt failed but he had a major success in securing a three-year contract (with a minimum annual income) with dealer Hans Goltz, whose influential gallery gave Klee major exposure, and some commercial success.

In 1995 the Greek experimental filmmaker, Kostas Sfikas, created a film based entirely on Paul Klee's paintings.By 1905, he was developing some experimental techniques, including drawing with a needle on a blackened pane of glass, resulting in fifty-seven works including his Portrait of My Father (1906).

In Viadukt (1937) the bridge arches split from the bank as they refuse to be linked to a chain and are therefore rioting.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Klee was still dividing his time with music, playing the violin in an orchestra and writing concert and theater reviews. They provide expert and detailed descriptions, disclose all significant defects and/or restorations, provide clear and accurate pricing, and operate with fairness and honesty during the purchase experience. Not only to master life in practice, but to shape it meaningfully within me and to achieve as mature an attitude before it as possible.

In 1949 Marcel Duchamp commented on Paul Klee: "The first reaction in front of a Klee painting is the very pleasant discovery, what everyone of us could or could have done, to try drawing like in our childhood.

In 1937, some papers from Prinzhorn's anthology were presented at the National Socialist propaganda exhibition " Entartete Kunst" in Munich, with the purpose of defaming the works of Kirchner, Klee, Nolde and other artists by likening them to the works of the insane.

Klee was able to develop his music skills as his parents encouraged and inspired him throughout his life. During his school years, he avidly drew in his school books, in particular drawing caricatures, and already demonstrating skill with line and volume. Bach and Mozart were for him the greatest composers; he most enjoyed playing the works by the latter. A newcomer to Klee may want to read a conventional biography of this great artist, before reading this particular book.

They are a marvellous reflection of the individual world of on of the most important artists of the twentieth century. In 1935, two years after moving to Switzerland and working in a very confined situation, Klee developed scleroderma, an autoimmune disease resulting in hardening of connective tissue. Paul Klee began keeping a diary in 1898, when he was 19, and he gave a date and number to each entry (i.