Höhe! is the first print executed by Klee after the Bauhaus moved from Weimar to Dessau. From this point onwards the artist abandoned lithography and returned solely to the medium of etching in his graphic work. The Dessau period was very productive and diverse, the artist treating and exploring ideas both new and old.

Höhe! presents a conflation of crucial elements of the artist's vocabulary. The subject is not governed by any structural laws. The figurine, having scaled a combination of ladders, balances in the air, above the level of the full moon, and reaches with a feathery outstretched hand the upper limit of the composition. This central motif is set within Cubist architectural constructions and Romantic landscape imagery which form a highly evocative and poetic harmony.

This print was issued by Klee in an edition of only ten for the Klee-Vereinigung founded by the Braunschweig collector Otto Rolfs in November 1925. Klee dedicated the impressions to each member at Christmas. The present example is dedicated to the important Cologne Regierunsgrat Heinrich Stinnes, who sought to include the first numbered print from any edition in his substantial and highly influential collection