Paul Klee: Biography and Work: The Bauhaus Period and the Struggle against Oppression
Follow Paul Klee during his decade as a professor at the renowned Bauhaus, his prolific production and the challenges he faced with the rise of the Nazi regime in Germany.
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Índice do Artigo
Klee left the Bauhaus in 1930 to go to the Academy of Art in Dusseldorf, but this brief period of calm came to an end on January 30, 1933, when Hitler became the Chancellor of Germany.
During this period, the artist was denounced by a Nazi newspaper as "bolchevique cultural" and "judeu galego", while his work was ridiculed as "insane" and "subversive".
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His house in Dessau was searched, and he was fired from his professor position.
As a result, in December of the same year, Klee and his wife returned to Bern.
In 1933, during his last year in Germany, Paul Klee produced almost 500 works.
However, he began to feel the symptoms of what was diagnosed after his death as scleroderma, a autoimmune disease that hardens the body's organs and skin.
The progression of his disease was fatal, which greatly reduced his artistic production.
At the end of the 1930s, his health improved slightly, and he was encouraged by a visit from Kandinsky and Picasso.
The simplest and largest projects of Klee allowed him to maintain his production in his last years, and in 1939 he created over 1,200 works, a career high for a year.
His last works deal with resilience, pain, sadness, and acceptance of death that was approaching.
In 1937, when the Nazis took control of the government, seventeen of his works, along with those of other contemporary avant-garde artists, such as Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, Piet Mondrian, and Wassily Kandinsky, were included in an exhibition of "degenerate art" in Munich;
and 102 of his works in public collections were seized by the Nazis.
In 1939, the accusations against his politics and character that had been made against him in Germany interfered with his request for Swiss citizenship.
According to Swiss law, Klee was German because his father was German, despite the fact that the artist was born in Switzerland.
Paul Klee died on June 29, 1940 in Switzerland, before his final request for citizenship could be approved, but they ended up accepting six days after his death.
Authority over his citizenship was granted posthumously.
The words on his tombstone, placed there by his son Felix, are a creed of Paul Klee:
"I cannot be caught in the here and now, because my home is both among the dead and the yet unborn, slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual, but not close enough "
Legacy
Although a large number of Klee's successors did not mention his work openly as an influence or apparent source, his artistic legacy was immense, comprising around 9,000 works of art.
The surrealists found his symbols apparently reducers, abstract signs, and random juxtaposition of text in the state of mind in the dream, bringing new experiments on how the unconscious mind exercises power as a result of the recombination of disparate objects from everyday life.
The Poet Paul Klee
Paul Klee's poems were never published during his lifetime.
They were only found after his death.
Some of them were found in a blue notebook, others scattered among the notes in his famous diary.
They often cite his art, both painting and music.
Humorous, mystical, or enigmatically ironic, they are formally well-versed.
Some excerpts found in his diary:
"To understand the rest of this journey, continue to our next article: Paul Klee: Biography and Work: Legacy, Poetry, and Key Early Works
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