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拍品專文
Klee ceased keeping a diary in 1918, and thereafter used his drawings to express his passing thoughts and keep a running commentary on events in his life. Consequently, the drawings are often personal and somewhat hermetic in their content, describing anecdotes and personalities that the artist encoded in his droll and fantastical manner, stemming from an "original realm of psychic improvisation" (A. Kagan, Paul Klee/Art & Music, Ithaca, New York, 1983, p. 95). Klee was a lifelong devotee of Mozart's operas, and the tales of the early romantic writers E.T.A. Hoffmann and Heinrich von Kleist. He occasionally refers to them in his drawings, but in most instances constructs scenes from his own imaginary operas, stories or poems. Klee wrote verse for much of his career, which was collected and published posthumously in 1946. Lieschen, the heroine of this little melodrama, attempts to keep her life in balance and hold time at bay. The rectangular sheet of paper becomes the stage, which in the present drawing is complete with numerous props and the floating fragment of the character's monologue.