Gedichte

by Paul Klee, Felix Klee

German

Genres: Poetry

137 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1960

About the author

Paul Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a Swiss painter and a German painter. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was, as well, a student of orientalism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered color theory, and wrote extensively about it; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are considered so important for modern art that they are compared to the importance that Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting had for Renaissance. He and his colleague , the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the German Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture. His works reflect his dry humour and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.

Reviews

[Bobparr · Rating 3 out of 5]

Recuperata questa raccolta per aver letto una poesia di Klee bellissima (qui riportata a pag 123), con la speranza di trovarne altre dello stesso tenore. Speranza disattesa, ahimè.

Molte liriche sono inascoltabili: non so se per problemi e forzature di traduzione - dove altrove ho letto - o perchè la sensibilità del poeta era proprio quella.

Di mio continuo a preferire il pittore allo scrittore.

Un bel saggio di Manacorda alla fine, dove si tratta di problemi semiotici in toni che possono soddisfare il più fine studioso - tra cui non mi reputo.

[fotostazione · Rating 4 out of 5]

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