Hoffmanneske Szene (Hoffmannesque Scene), from: New European Graphics, Portfolio I: Masters of the State Bauhaus, Weimar
Artist: Paul Klee (Swiss, 1879-1940)
Publisher: Müller & Co. Verlag
Printer: Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar
Date: 1921
Dimensions:
12 3/8 x 9 in.
Medium: Lithograph in color
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Winthrop H. Perry Fund
Object number: 1959.98
Label Text:Paul Klee's Creative Credo, published in 1920, begins: "Art does not reproduce the visible, but makes visible. The very nature of graphic art lures us to abstraction, readily and with reason. It gives the schematic fairytale quality of the imaginary and expresses it with great precision." In his art, Klee sought the "in-between world … that exists between the world our senses perceive." Incorporating ideas from Cubism and from the art of children and of the mentally ill, he created beguiling and magical scenes.
This color lithograph, based closely on a 1921 watercolor by Klee, refers to the phantasmagoric stories of the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann and to Jacques Offenbach's ironic opera based on the author’s works, The Tales of Hoffmann (1880).
This color lithograph, based closely on a 1921 watercolor by Klee, refers to the phantasmagoric stories of the German Romantic writer E.T.A. Hoffmann and to Jacques Offenbach's ironic opera based on the author’s works, The Tales of Hoffmann (1880).
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