Word: klee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early luminary of Walter Gropius' Bauhaus in Germany, which developed such formgivers as Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Moholy-Nagy, Albers came to the U.S. when Hitler closed the Bauhaus, taught at Black Mountain College and later headed Yale's Department of Design. At 70, Albers has the granitic and yet sensitive face of a northern Dante; though recently retired, he still finds opportunities to teach. "To distribute spiritual possessions," he may say to one shy talent, "is to multiply them." To another, more flamboyant, he may murmur in passing, "Calm down...
Among the one hundred and thirtyeight works are pieces by Rouault, Klee Picasso, Durer, Renoir, Canaletto, and Toulouse-Lautrec. All were lent by thirtyeight Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates, and over half are works of this century...
...exhibit will consist entirely of student-owned works of art, and will include paintings, drawings, graphic art, and sculpture of the Western world. All of the one hundred and thirty-eight works, which include pieces by Rouault, Klee, Picasso, Durer, Canaletto, Renoir, and Toulouse-Lautrec, were lent by thirty-eight Harvard and Radcliffe undergraduates...
...illimitable grid of straight streets, its now-vanished els, old New York Central trains with diamond-shaped smokestack and steam domes of polished brass, and Hudson River sidewheelers and yachts, of which he used to build faithful models. There, working side by side with fellow fantasists, topped by Paul Klee. and fellow precisionists, notably Josef Albers. Feininger evolved the weird, airy, many-faceted style that...
Michael C. D. Macdonald '60 and Michel J. Strauss '59, are organizing the showing, which is tentatively entitled "The Scholar as Collector." Numerous items have already been pledged for exhibit, including works of Picasso, Klee, Roualt, and Durer...