Paul Klee’s artistic skills were
diverse: he was a painter, printmaker, critic, and theoretician. He taught at
the Bauhaus for most of the famed school’s existence; initially head of the
bookbinding department, he also supervised the glass-painting workshop. His
greatest influence, however, was as a lecturer for the basic design course on
the theory of form in art. In lectures, Klee developed his ideas about the
“polyphony” of painting, which was based on his interest in simultaneous
sensational effects that could be created by various layered formal elements.
He believed that this type of creative experimentation could “issue forth a
transformed beholder of art” and thus pave the way for total abstraction.
Bequest of Claire Zeisler
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