DETAILS
- Artist
- Paul Klee
- Date
- 1922
- Location
- Yale University Art Gallery
ART MOVEMENTS
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THE ARTIST
Paul Klee
1879–1940 · Kingdom of PrussiaPaul Klee was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism.
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Further Works by Klee
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Death in the Garden (Legend)
1919 · Art Institute of Chicago
Schoolhouse
1920 · Art Institute of Chicago
The Firmament Above the Temple
1922 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Asiatic God
1924 · Art Institute of Chicago
Still Life with Fragments
1925 · Art Institute of Chicago
Fleeing Ghost
1929 · Art Institute of Chicago
Strange Glance
1930 · Art Institute of Chicago
Sunset
1930 · Art Institute of Chicago
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More from Expressionism
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More works to explore
Beyond Klee and Expressionism: works from the same years, and from the other movements Red/Green Architecture (yellow/violet gradation) belongs to.
Same movement · Surrealism
Dada Gauguin
Max Ernst · 1920 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1900s–1930s
Lozenge Composition with Yellow, Black, Blue, Red, and Gray
Piet Mondrian · 1921 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same movement · Surrealism
The Eye
René Magritte · 1932 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1900s–1930s
Interior with painter
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner · 1921 · Buchheim Museum of Imagination
Same movement · Surrealism
Untitled (Desert Landscape)
Salvador Dalí · 1934 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1900s–1930s
The Lineman
Ivan Puni · 1927 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same movement · Surrealism
The Old Guitarist
Pablo Picasso · 1903 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1900s–1930s
American Gothic
Okada Saburosuke · 1930 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same movement · Surrealism
Figure with Meat
Francis Bacon · 1954 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1900s–1930s
Bull's Head
Mikhail Larionov · 1913 · Tretyakov Gallery
Same era · 1900s–1930s
The Fiddler
Norman Rockwell · 1921 · Brandywine Museum of Art
Same era · 1900s–1930s
The Praying Jew
Marc Chagall · 1923 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1900s–1930s
Woman before an Aquarium
Henri Matisse · 1921 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1900s–1930s
Untitled (Birds)
Max Ernst · 1924 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1900s–1930s
Man and Trees, Florida
John Singer Sargent · 1917 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Same era · 1900s–1930s
Seated Woman, Back View
Egon Schiele · 1917 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Same era · 1900s–1930s
Irises
Claude Monet · 1915 · National Gallery




