Angelus militans

Date: 1940

The painting is an abstract painting with strong lines and geometric shapes. It makes use of unnatural colours such as green, yellow, blue and red, which together create contrasting effects. Geometric surfaces are combined in such a way as to evoke associations with figures or faces, although the resulting expression is open to interpretation. The painting looks as if it has been created with crayons or oil pastels, due to the texture that is visible on the surface.

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Klee painted picture Angelus militans in 1940. Prevailing color of this fine art print is vivid and its shape is portrait. 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.