The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918Paul Klee was endowed with a rich and many-sided personality that was continually spilling over into forms of expression other than his painting and that made him one of the most extraordinary phenomena of modern European art. These abilities have left their record in the four intimate Diaries in which he faithfully recorded the events of his inner and outer life from his nineteenth to his fortieth year. Here, together with recollections of his childhood in Bern, his relations with his family and such friends as Kandinsky, Marc, Macke, and many others, his observations on nature and people, his trips to Italy and Tunisia, and his military service, the reader will find Klee's crucial experience with literature and music, as well as many of his essential ideas about his own artistic technique and the creative process. |
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R. Y. Zachary and Max Knight of the University of California Press made the final translation of the entire volume . R. Y. Z. Preface a The reader of the four diaries of Paul V Note on the Text PREFACE.
R. Y. Zachary and Max Knight of the University of California Press made the final translation of the entire volume . R. Y. Z. Preface a The reader of the four diaries of Paul V Note on the Text PREFACE.
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Preface a The reader of the four diaries of Paul Klee in this volume will be initiatedbeing presumably an outsider — into a mysterious , rare , individual , and watchful world , that of Paul Klee the " painter .
Preface a The reader of the four diaries of Paul Klee in this volume will be initiatedbeing presumably an outsider — into a mysterious , rare , individual , and watchful world , that of Paul Klee the " painter .
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After Klee's death , on June 29 , 1940 , the four diaries were faithfully guarded by my mother , Lily , in her apartment in Bern . After the death of my mother , on September 22 , 1946 , the notebooks came into the possession of the ...
After Klee's death , on June 29 , 1940 , the four diaries were faithfully guarded by my mother , Lily , in her apartment in Bern . After the death of my mother , on September 22 , 1946 , the notebooks came into the possession of the ...
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Reading and studying the following four diaries will open another unexpected and marvelous blossom to the friend and observer of Klee's art . Be it the spirit of this first publication to carry us off for ample time to distant worlds ...
Reading and studying the following four diaries will open another unexpected and marvelous blossom to the friend and observer of Klee's art . Be it the spirit of this first publication to carry us off for ample time to distant worlds ...
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I attended the first four grades of the local primary school ; then my parents sent me to the municipal Progymnasium . I then entered the Literarschule of the Gymnasium . After I passed the cantonal examinations and was graduated in the ...
I attended the first four grades of the local primary school ; then my parents sent me to the municipal Progymnasium . I then entered the Literarschule of the Gymnasium . After I passed the cantonal examinations and was graduated in the ...
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Contents
Memories of Childhood | 1 |
The Student at the Classical High School | 12 |
Munich First Year of Study 18981899 | 20 |
Munich II 18991900 | 31 |
Munich III 19001901 | 40 |
Before Italy Summer of 1901 Bern and Surroundings | 55 |
DAIRY II | 59 |
Italian Diary October 1901 to May 1902 | 61 |
DAIRY III | 115 |
Munich | 205 |
Trip to Tunisia | 281 |
DAIRY IV | 323 |
THE KLEE FAMILY | 410 |
RECOLLECTIONS FELIX KLEE | 412 |
FELIX CALENDAR | 418 |
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| Title | The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918 |
| Author | Paul Klee |
| Editor | Felix Klee |
| Contributor | Felix Klee |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | University of California Press, 1964 |
| ISBN | 0520006534, 9780520006539 |
| Length | 424 pages |
| Subjects | › › Art / European Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) Art / Individual Artists / General Biography & Autobiography / General |
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