Villa R

Date: 1919
Medium: oil on board
Location: Offentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Švýcarsko
Dimensions: 26 x 22

The painting depicts an abstract composition with elements reminiscent of landscape and architecture. Geometric shapes and surfaces are striking, among which the silhouette of a house with windows and a cross can be discerned. Warm earth tones are dominant, complemented by the blue and yellow of the sun. The overall impression is warm and mysterious, inviting interpretation and a search for hidden meanings in the shapes and shades depicted. The style is reminiscent of cubism or expressionism.

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Klee painted picture Villa R in 1919. Prevailing color of this fine art print is vivid and its shape is portrait. Original size is 26 x 22. This art piece is located in Offentliche Kunstsammlung, Basel, Švýcarsko. 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.