Paul Klee: Masterpieces of the Djerassi Collection
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Paul Klee: Masterpieces of the Djerassi Collection Details
From the Publisher Paul Klee (1879-1940) was born in Bern, Switzerland. As a young man he moved to Munich, where he studied art and joined the Blue Rider group, which also included such artists as Kandinsky, Muenter, Macke, and Marc. From 1921 to 1931 he lectured at the Bauhaus, and then at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf until his dismissal by the Nazis in 1933. Read more About the Author Carl Aigner is the author of numerous works on nineteenth- and twentieth-century art, and the Director of the Kunsthalle Krems and the Niederösterreichisches Landesmuseum St. Pölten. He lives in Vienna, Austria. With contributions by Ruth Berson and Janet Bishop. Read more
Reviews
This book is the catalogue for a 2002 exhibition of a private collection exclusively devoted to Paul Klee's works, a collection that was built over 40 years by a Vienna-born Californian collector, Doctor Carl Djerassi, who pledged most of it to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The bulk of the collection is formed by a wonderful series of prints, drawings and watercolors, complemented by a few paintings. The book starts with some essays describing how the collection was formed and how the collector's passion was born. The interview of Djerassi is particularly interesting to understand the psyche of a passionate art collector.The illustrations of some 80 works that follow are good but not outstanding and give a fair idea of Klee's creative power. Do not expect a full retrospective of the artist's career, though; this is not the aim of this book.