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...stilled voices on the new disc belonged to Ervin Schulhoff, a Prague- born composer and associate of George Grosz and Paul Klee, who died at age 48 in 1942 in the Wulzburg camp; Vitezslava Kapralova, a Czech-born pianist and conducting student of Charles Munch, who, only 25, perished in 1940 of tuberculosis while attempting to get to America; and Gideon Klein, another Czech composer, who died in 1945 at the age of 25 after trips to Theresienstadt, Auschwitz and Furstengrubbe...
...later piece, "Light, Dry Poem" (1938), exemplifies Klee's experiments with color and texture. On burlap, black lines surround pastel shapes. The place seems to be Klee's expression of his belief that "art does not render the visible; rather it makes visible...
...What Klee chose to "make visible" was often the natural world and its relation to humans. In "Botanical High Culture" (1938) bold, colorful shapes suggest human forms. The drawing "Perception of an Animal" (1925) shows highly stylized parts of an animal, drawn with tiny sharp black lines. In the white space of the background floats an exlamation point, as if Klee is commenting on the wonder of nature...
Many of the drawings explore the difference, or lack thereof, between humans ans animals. In the drawings, "Hardly Walking Any More, Not Flying YEt" (1927), Klee depicts a creature that is half man, half bird. The loose, sweeping lines surrounding the figure suggest wings and feathers...
These pieces highlight the childlike drawing style for which Klee is known. He drew his figures with spontaneous, thin black lines and did not rework them. The fragmented figues show the influence of Cubism on hiswork but this playful style set him apart...