Mountain village

ID: #1761 | TOP 100 | Expresionism | Abstract

Date: 1934
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, Switzerland
Dimensions: 71.5 x 54.4

The picture comes from 1934, a period Klee's late works, which he painted mostly abstract works. The mountain village was most likely in Switzerland. In 1933 Klee had Paul Klee called degenerate artist by the Nazis and had to immediately leave the academy in Düsseldorf, where he worked since 1931. He also was forbidden to exhibit his paintings. Klee together with his wife and son and a few months later moved to Switzerland, where he was Paul Klee welcomed with open arms and where he could freely create and exhibit.

Klee painted picture Mountain village in 1934. Prevailing color of this fine art print is red and its shape is portrait. Original size is 71.5 x 54.4. This art piece is located in Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, 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.