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...driving such fine artists as Grosz, Josef Albers, Paul Klee and Max Beckmann from the country, by persecuting the few moderns who remained, and by turning their students into soldiers, Hitler had crushed Germany's art tradition. Still cut off from the art of other nations, her new painters were going modern in the dark, groping and hoping for success...
Other paintings on display at the gallery-each in four to six copies-were by Picasso, Dufy, Klee, Vlaminck, Signac and Derain. The facsimiles had been made by 28-year-old Janine Aeply and her husband Jean Fautrier on hand presses in a little studio ten miles outside Paris...
Last week many Americans were getting their first good look at the subtly romantic, hilarious and nightmare worlds of Paul Klee. The largest Klee exhibit ever to be shown in the U.S. was in Portland, Ore., on the second lap of a transcontinental tour. At the San Francisco Museum of Art it had broken attendance records for the year...
...paintings, drawings and prints, gathered together by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, showed Klee at his wittiest, his most charming, and most terrifying. Landscape with Accents and Little Dune Picture had the skilled naivete of antique Chinese drawings, while Lady Demon, Country Dwarf and Mask of Fear were like small windows into a skeleton-filled closet. Exercises, a few squiggly lines portraying an amazed dog watching three uncomfortably contorted human beings, was as sharp and prodding as a Thurber vignette...
Most of the gallerygoers, whether pro-or anti-Klee, wore a solemn mien, as required by traditional museum etiquette. But a visiting watercolorist walked in and asked: "Why isn't anybody laughing...