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Mathilde Klee, Lily Klee with Felix Klee on their lap, Hans and Ida Klee-Frick, Bern 1908

Lily Klee (born 10. October 1876 as Karoline stump in Munich , died 22. September 1946 in Bern ) was a German pianist , wife of the painter Paul Klee and mother of the director Felix Klee .

Life

Lily Stumpf was the daughter of the medical councilor and doctor Ludwig Stumpf (1846–1923) and his wife Annemarie, née Pohle.

Stumpf received her musical training from Ludwig Thuille, among others . She got to know the violinist and painter Paul Klee at a chamber music soirée in 1899 and became engaged to him in 1901 after having had several affairs with other women. Despite her father's resistance, she finally married the artist in Bern on September 15, 1906. Together they furnished their Munich home and built Paul's studio in a garden shed. On November 30, 1907, Felix Klee was born as the only child together. While her husband raised, painted and cooked their son, Lily Klee earned a living as a piano teacher for the artist couple, who are mainly connected through music. Like her husband, Lily Klee had numerous friendships with other artists.

When Paul Klee was called up in World War I , his wife got him to work behind the lines; even after the war she provided the main income for the family, from 1920 as a chamber musician and piano teacher in Weimar . It was only after Klee was employed at the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1921 that she was able to take more care of her health, which had suffered in the barren years.

In 1933, during the Nazi era, she organized the family's emigration to Switzerland and, after the death of her husband, regulated the administration of the artistic estate by a voluntary commission in order to prevent the Allies from confiscating all works , as stipulated in the Washington Agreement .

After Felix Klee, her son, returned from Soviet captivity on September 16, 1946, Lily Klee suffered a stroke "with excitement" at the news of her return - as Maria Marc reported - from the consequences of which she died on September 22.

literature

  • Hildegard Möller: painters and muses of the "Blue Rider". Piper, Munich / Zurich 2007, ISBN 978-3-492-05017-3 , pp. 279–328
  • "In close friendship". Alexej Jawlensky, Paul and Lily Klee, Marianne Werefkin; the correspondence , (Klee studies vol. 4). Edited by Zentrum Paul Klee , Bern and by Stefan Frey. ZIP, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-909252-14-5

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Antonius Lux (ed.): Great women of world history. A thousand biographies in words and pictures . Sebastian Lux Verlag , Munich 1963, p. 268.
  2. ↑ Brief portrait of Lily Klee
  3. ↑ Beate Ofczarek, Stefan Frey: Chronology of a friendship . In: Michael Baumgartner, Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy, Katja Schneider (Eds.): Franz Marc. Paul Klee. Dialogue in pictures , exhibition catalog. Nimbus, Wädenswil 2010, ISBN 978-3-907142-50-9 , p. 224 f.
personal data
SURNAME Klee, Lily
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stumpf, Karoline (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German pianist, wife of the painter Paul Klee and mother of the director Felix Klee
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 1946
Place of death Bern