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Klee made this pen drawing in 1916, the year he was called up to the army. The Cleveland Museum of Art sees a scene of war in it: a zeppelin, a fallen soldier, a child without a head, and a figure floating above that may be holy or evil. In 1915 Klee had written that the more horrifying the world becomes, the more abstract art grows.
pen and black ink · Sheet: 12.4 x 14.5 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · The Blue Rider
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Details and source
- Museum title
- With the Dot
- Artist
- Paul Klee (German, 1879–1940)
- Date
- 1916
- Medium
- pen and black ink
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 12.4 x 14.5 cm (4 7/8 x 5 11/16 in.); Secondary Support: 12.4 x 14.5 cm (4 7/8 x 5 11/16 in.); Tertiary Support: 24.4 x 31.9 cm (9 5/8 x 12 9/16 in.)
- Credit line
- Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.