PAUL KLEE: PAINTINGS, WATERCOLORS 1913 TO 1939
Karl Nerendorf [Editor]
Karl Nerendorf [Editor]: PAUL KLEE: PAINTINGS, WATERCOLORS 1913 TO 1939. New York: Oxford University Press, 1941. Folio. Decorated plastic spiral-bound thick covered boards with yapped edges. Frontis portrait photograph of Klee by Josef Albers. 35 pp. of text. 2 color seriagraph prints. 65 black and white plates. Spine and yapped edges age darkened and edges worn. The spine of the cover is splitting and chipped. Textblock and plates lightly age toned to edges. A good or better copy.
First edition. Elaborate celebration of Klee's watercolors with two full-color serigraph plates Fulfillment, 1920 and Figure of the Oriental Theatre printed by the Creative Printmakers Group, NYC and 65 plates printed by the Federick Photogelatine Press, NY.
From the Guggenheim's web site: "Klee taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar from 1921 to 1926 and in Dessau from 1926 to 1931. During his tenure, he was in close contact with other Bauhaus masters such as Kandinsky and Lyonel Feininger. In 1924 the Blaue Vier (the Blue Four), consisting of Lyonel Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, and Klee, was founded. Among his notable exhibitions of this period were his first in the United States at the Societe Anonyme, New York, in 1924; his first major show in Paris the following year at the Galerie Vavin-Raspail; and an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1930. Klee went to Dusseldorf to teach at the Akademie in 1931, shortly before the Nazis closed the Bauhaus. Forced by the Nazis to leave his position in Dusseldorf in 1933, Klee settled in Bern the following year. Seventeen of his works were included in the Nazi exhibition of "degenerate art," Entartete Kunst, in 1937. Major Klee exhibitions took place in Bern and Basel in 1935 and in Zurich in 1940. Klee died on June 29, 1940, in Muralto-Locarno, Switzerland."