Folkwang museum essen paul klee biography
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I cannot be grasped in the here and now. For my dwelling place is as much among the dead as the yet unborn. Slightly closer to the heart of creation than usual. But not nearly close enough.
Paul Klee, epitaph
Join us for this unique public event exploring the relationship between poetry and art, in the magical setting of The EY Exhibition Paul Klee: Making Visible at Tate Modern. Surrounded bygd Paul Klee's iconic works, this evening features live poetry readings by poets Lawrence Sail and John Mole, joined by Lucy Tregear, as well as discussion and a private view of the exhibition, offering a fascinating insight into the influence of Klee’s art on some of the great poets of our time.
Considering Klee's powerful effect on such poets as Paul Muldoon, Sylvia Plath and Tom Paulin, this evening explores the way these poets, including Sail and Mole, illuminate Klee's paintings, highlighting such themes as childhood, the tug of history and a sense of theatre, as well as Klee'
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Department of Prints and Drawings
Since the museum was founded, drawings, watercolours and prints have been collected in parallel with works of painting. Thus, in the early 20th century, Karl Ernst Osthaus, the founder of the Museum Folkwang, acquired not only paintings by Vincent van Gogh but also some drawings by the artist, which still belong to the Department of Prints and Drawings today. In the years that followed, Osthaus devoted himself with great passion to contemporary art, including Expressionism, and here too he was interested not only in paintings and sculptures but also in drawings and prints. When the collection Osthaus founded in Hagen came to Essen in , it was united with the collection of the Essen Art Museum, which its director Ernst Gosebruch had assembled. Gosebruch, who was also interested in works on paper, continued his collecting activities as director of the Museum Folkwang in Essen until , and the museum soon had one of the most important contemporary c
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Remembering Paul Klee ()
The 29th June marks eighty years since the death of Paul Klee, one of the most important artists and innovators of the 20th century. His in-depth study of colour has been highly influential and his methods in abstraction can be seen in the likes of both Rothko and Miró. During his time teaching at the Bauhaus school alongside Kandinsky, he was known as the ‘magician’.
In remembrance of this brilliant artist, we had a look at five key facts about his life.
(1) His art was heavily influenced by his love of music.
Klee was born in in Switzerland to a family of musicians, and music became one of the earliest influences on his work. With a particular love for Bach and Mozart, he played violin as a child, and played in the Berne municipal orchestra as a teenager. He showed considerable promise for a career in music, but became passionate about art after his studies in Munich. In his early paintings, he explores structural affinities between painti