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Lot Essay
Klee taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar from 1921-1925 and while there created a group of whimsical compositions based on theater, ballet, comic opera, fairy tales, legends, actors and puppets. These humorous poetic fantasies were readily adapted to the permutations of the artists pictorial form.
Klee was the son of a professional musician and was a proficient violinist. He wrote musical critiques and thought of music as a model for his art. His love for music, opera, theater and ballet was central to his life. His son Felix Klee states:
From his earliest youth Paul Klee was entranced by the theater. Perhaps what particularly struck him were the tranformations, the changing appearances, the costumes and the sets. Certainly the theater was of the utmost importance to his work. However, Klee felt especially drawn toward opera. His preference for it may have been due to his pronounced musicality, to the many excellent performances under Mottl which he heard in Munich, or to opera's uniquenes as an art form (F. Klee, Paul Klee, New York, 1962, pp. 93-94).
Klee was the son of a professional musician and was a proficient violinist. He wrote musical critiques and thought of music as a model for his art. His love for music, opera, theater and ballet was central to his life. His son Felix Klee states:
From his earliest youth Paul Klee was entranced by the theater. Perhaps what particularly struck him were the tranformations, the changing appearances, the costumes and the sets. Certainly the theater was of the utmost importance to his work. However, Klee felt especially drawn toward opera. His preference for it may have been due to his pronounced musicality, to the many excellent performances under Mottl which he heard in Munich, or to opera's uniquenes as an art form (F. Klee, Paul Klee, New York, 1962, pp. 93-94).