Ad Marginem

Date: 1930
Medium: watercolours
Location: Offentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switzerland
Dimensions: 46 x 36

Ad Marginem or On the Edge is a painting by Paul Klee , who uses often mysterious symbols to express his feelings. Specifically in this work, plants, animals and other shapes pushed to the very edge of the canvas set out to meet the dark sun that occupies the center of the picture. An incredible world far away, haunted, covered with rust and lichen and polluted with stains, comes to life and draws power from the light of the sun. The original painting was created in 1930, when Klee was teaching at the Bauhaus school in Weimar. After returning to Bern, he reworked the painting in 1935 and 1936. The veil of melancholy that spreads over the entire work is a reflection of both the change of environment and the change of his feelings and mood.

Klee painted picture Ad Marginem in 1930. Prevailing color of this fine art print is yellow and its shape is portrait. Original size is 46 x 36. This art piece is located in Offentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Switzerland. 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.