Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonne 1931-1933

Paul Klee (1879-1940) is one of the most significant and best-loved artists of the twentieth century. For the nine volumes of this landmark project, the Berne-based Paul Klee Foundation has researched the artist's 9,600 drawings, prints, watercolors, and oil paintings, allowing the artist's complete works to be assembled and published for the first time. Each volume contains an introduction in German and English, an explanation of the catalogue system, a German-English glossary, a bibliography, and indexes. All the entries are illustrated and include catalogue numbers, technical descriptions, measurements, references to related works, details of provenance and location, relevant literature, and a list of exhibitions and auctions in which works have appeared. Klee's own entries from the catalogue he maintained from 1911 onwards are also included, and the most important works are illustrated in color. Klee's work during the years 1931-33 reflects his travels to Sicily, Venice, and the South of France. In 1931, after terminating his teaching contract with the Bauhaus in Dessau, Klee took up a professorship at the Dusseldorf Academy of Art. Two years later he came under attack from the Nazis and was dismissed, and in December 1933 he left Germany to settle in Switzerland. Over 1000 illustrations, 100 in color.