Mask

Date: 20th century
Medium: pencil, pastel
Location: Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
Dimensions: 29.4 x 30.1

The painting is an abstract likeness with vivid colours and irregular shapes, reminiscent of an abstract portrait or mask. Shades of brown, yellow and green dominate. The face has large white eyes with black circles, a straight smile with single teeth, and appears to be wearing a hat or wearing another abstract object on its head. The background is dark green with small yellow and white circles that may represent the sun and moon.

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Klee painted picture Mask in 20th century. Prevailing color of this fine art print is dark and its shape is square. Original size is 29.4 x 30.1. This art piece is located in Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, 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.