Klee: His Life and Work

1965 copy of Klee: His Life and Work by Gualtieri Di San Lazzaro

Paul Klee, who was born of Swiss and German parents in 1879, and died in 1940, is one of the most fascinating artists of the twentieth century. His work is no longer dismissed as charming sophisticated doodles, for it is now recognized that Klee was a man of subtle and penetrating ideas and of extreme sensibility. 'I cannot be grasped in this world,' he wrote in his Diary, 'for I am as much at home with the dead as with those yet unborn-a little nearer to the heart of creation than is normal but still too far away?' For all its seriousness there is nothing solemn about his work, which abounds in imagery, wit and humour. Although the immensely complex world of his creation eludes critical explanation, his work is not difficult to enjoy, for it is an expression of lyrical fantasies and rhythms to which it is easy to respond without completely comprehending. Modern art has produced no figure more various in invention than he, and few more meticulous and ingenious technicians. Klee's writings, such as his Diary, his contributions to the Bauhaus review, and his 'Creative Confession', the first of a series of essays, are invaluable in that they help to explain not only his own art, but a great deal of modern art generally.

With 71 colour plates and 322 black-and-white plates

Hardcover with dust jacket

Author: Gualtieri Di San Lazzaro

Edition/Year: 1965, Thames and Hudson

Condition: Good vintage condition.

Dimensions: 8.5" x 6"