Angel, still groping
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| Angel, still groping |
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| Paul Klee , 1939 |
| Watercolor on paper |
| 29.4 x 20.8 cm |
| Paul Klee Center, Bern |
Engel, still groping is a watercolor by Paul Klee from 1939.
description
Klee's angel, still groping with blonde hair, big blue eyes and a red mouth, is tilted down to the right of the picture. The angel's outstretched arm with the three fingers and the thumb pointing forward divides the image into a light upper and a dark lower half. After his dismissal as a professor , his qualification as a “ degenerate artist ” and the discovery of an incurable disease in him at the time, Klee painted his angels with childlike humor. His angels are not transcendent, mystical beings.
Of a total of 28 angel pictures that he painted in 1939, four more pictures with the angel as a theme were created in the year of his death, 1940 until May.
literature
- Roland Doschka : Paul Klee - Between heaven and earth - worlds of images by Paul Klee. With contributions by Sylvia Wölfle, Ingrid Riedel, Barbara Reil. Catalog for the exhibition in the Lindau City Museum, 2017.
Web links
- The Engel von Klee site of the Paul Klee Center
Individual evidence
- ^ Roland Doschka: Paul Klee - Between heaven and earth - worlds of images by Paul Klee. With contributions by Sylvia Wölfle, Ingrid Riedel, Barbara Reil. Catalog for the exhibition in the Lindau City Museum, 2017, p. 136.
- ^ Roland Doschka: Paul Klee - Between heaven and earth - worlds of images by Paul Klee. With contributions by Sylvia Wölfle, Ingrid Riedel, Barbara Reil. Catalog for the exhibition in the Lindau City Museum, 2017, p. 135.