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...Germany just before the outbreak of World War I, a promising young Swiss-born artist named Paul Klee threw over all the drawing lessons he had learned at Munich's famed Akademie and took to making little childlike scrawls. Artist Klee was trying to capture on canvas the fleeting impressions of his own subconscious mind. To him and a few devoted admirers the childish, loony world of the subconscious was more interesting than the harsh, war-bound world outside...
...Paul Klee's artistic babbling and cooing was not unique. All over Europe artists had suddenly developed a subconscious itch. High priest of the cult was Viennese Psychologist Sigmund Freud, who had taken the human mind apart and discovered that a lot of its thinking was controlled by buried childhood memories. Surrealism was not yet fashionable. But writers like James Joyce and Gertrude Stein, "expressionist" painters like Max Ernst and Vassily Kandinsky were already scratching their nether brains, hypnotizing themselves into trances, trying to get their inchoate feelings into print and paint...
Died. Paul Klee, 61, Swiss-born painter; in Berne, Switzerland. His scrawly-scratchy works banned as "Bolshevist art," Artist Klee was forced in 1933 to resign as professor at the Academy of Art in Dusseldorf, fled Germany...
...Germanic Museum, that rather grim looking building which periodically comes forth with some of the best art exhibits around town, is once more to be congratulated upon the quality and interest embodied in one of its presentations. Its current exhibit of Paul Klee's paintings deserves the special attention of anyone interested in the problems characteristic of contemporary Continental art. Klee is considered by many to be the ablest exponent of recent German painting...
There is a certain difficulty involved in adjusting one's self to Klee's style in order to make his work resemble anything like a communicative medium. It cannot be denied that to understand him as a painter requires much concentration and intellectual exercise, for a few traditional cobwebs must first be cleared from our minds, and a sympathetic desire to go hand in hand with the artist on his own ground must be substituted. Klee is not a literal painter. His colors themselves are intended to contain a certain emotional content, and the total effect of each...