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Conjurer's Secret. By never denying childhood's all-questioning view, Klee kept his magician's power to conjure up the fears and delights underlying the prickly defense of man's intellect. He viewed a line as a dot wandering through space, allowed his hand to follow his own inner promptings. But because what the unconscious tossed up was rigorously controlled by one of the keenest sensibilities in modern art, the result was a lifetime's staggering production of nearly 9,000 works which have an uncanny ability to communicate indirectly to man; their meanings...
...prepared slowly and thoroughly for his distinguished career. After studying and teaching in Berlin, Essen and Munich, he went back to art school at 32 in the Bauhaus, founded by Functional Architect Walter Gropius. At 35 he became a teacher at the Bauhaus, working alongside Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. In the craftsmanlike tradition of the school, he designed the first modern bent laminated-wood chair, made stained glass windows out of broken bottles. When Hitler closed the Bauhaus...
Turning the Mirror. The young pioneers reproduced on the following pages took their lead from such European moderns as Kandinsky, Picasso and Paul Klee, and from a slightly less exalted group-Fernand Léger, Jacques Lipschitz, Piet Mondrian, André Masson-who sat out World War II in New York. All brought essentially the same promise: instead of holding a mirror up to nature, art could mirror the inner world of the artist himself. The methods for doing this-abstraction and distortion-were as old as doddering modern art itself (i.e., almost a century), and had already been explored...
...German painters denounced as "degenerate" by Hitler, there were only two choices if they were to continue as artists: get out of Germany or go underground. Painters Paul Klee, George Grosz, Josef Albers and Architect Walter Gropius managed to escape; one of the few who chose to remain and survived is Fritz Winter, today rated as Germany's leading abstract-expressionist. To celebrate Winter's 50th birthday, Munich's Günther Franke Gallery is staging a showing of 46 of his paintings, ranging from 1929 to the present. The Munich retrospective, and a current exhibition...
Died. Lyonel Feininger, 84, topnotch U.S. modernist painter; in Manhattan. New York-born Feininger went to Germany in 1887 to study music, turned to painting instead, exhibited in 1913 with the Blue Rider group (Klee, Kandinsky, Franz Marc), taught painting and graphic arts at Walter Gropius' Bauhaus from 1919 to 1933. Influenced by cubism, he illumined dark, glowing abstractions of sailboats (a famed one: Glorious Victory of the Sloop Maria), churches and city scenes with the placement of crystal-like shafts of light...