Above the mountain peaks

ID: #1801 | Expresionism | Abstract

Date: 1917
Medium: watercolours
Location: Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands
Dimensions: 31 x 24.1

The painting is an abstract composition that looks like a cosmic scene with geometric shapes and cosmic bodies. In the center is a stylized white cross framed by bright shapes reminiscent of galaxies or star clusters. It is surrounded by bright circles and crescents, indicating the planets and their phases. The background is made up of colourful triangles and diamond shapes that add depth and multi-colour to the scenery.

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Klee painted picture Above the mountain peaks in 1917. Prevailing color of this fine art print is vivid and its shape is portrait. Original size is 31 x 24.1. This art piece is located in Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Paul Klee (1879-1940). From childhood, he was interested in both music and painting, but as is evident, finally decided on painting - his paintings are among prized artworks. In Munich, he met Kandinsky, Franz Marc, and other artists of the then avant-garde. He met also his future wife, pianist Lily Stumpf. His work is associated with a expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was one of the four Die Blaue Vier (with Kandinsky, Feininger and Jawlensky). He taught at Bauhaus and the Düsseldorf Academy until 1933, when the Nazis declared his paintings a figment of a sick soul and with labelled his whole creation as degenerate art. Klee was extremely hardworking and after his death, he left behind 8926 works in Switzerland. Klee’s paintings are fragile, with a sensitive use of color (his colour mixing ranks among the world’s best) and frequent references to poetry, music and dreams.