The Broken Key

Date: 1938
Medium: oil on canvas
Location: Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
Dimensions: 50 x 66

The painting is an abstract work of art with organic black lines forming simple shapes on a textured background. Two dominant areas are shown, one a muted pink and the other a tinge of grey. The lines resemble stylized figures or symbols, with a central motif that has two black dots resembling eyes and a curved line like a smile. The overall expression is playful and open to interpretation.

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Klee painted picture The Broken Key in 1938. Prevailing color of this fine art print is vivid and its shape is landscape. Original size is 50 x 66. This art piece is located in Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany. 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.