Klee and America
Publisher: Hatje Cantz, Menil
Publish Date: 2006
Edited by Josef Helfenstein and Elizabeth Hutton Turner
Klee and America accompanies explores the reasons for Paul Klee's enthusiastic reception in the United States, especially during the 1930s and 1940s. While the artist was targeted in Hitler's campaign against "Degenerate Art" and the European market for his work collapsed in 1933, his reputation grew among several key American collectors and museum curators, several of whom laid the groundwork for Klee's later success in the US. These critical early figures included the dealers Galka Scheyer and J.B. Neumann, the collectors Katherine Dreier and Walter and Louise Arensberg, and the founder of the Museum of Modern Art, Alfred Barr. Jr. The publication presents an impressive selection of Klee's finest "American" works from that period, including both paintings and drawings.
Exhibition schedule:· Neue Galerie New York, March 10-May 21, 2006 · The Philips Collection, Washington, D.C., June 17-September 10, 2006 The Menil Collection, Houston, October 6, 2006-January 14, 2007
Details
Publisher: Hatje Cantz, Menil
Artist: Paul Klee
Contributors: Josef Helfenstein, Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Jenny Anger, Vivian Endicott Barnett, Michael Baumgartner, Bradford Epley, Christa Haiml, Charles W. Haxthausen
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN: 9783775717236
Retail: $55 | £43 | €51
Status: Not Available
Designer: Public Address Design
Printer: Dr. Cantz\sche Druckerei, Ostfildern-Ruit, Germany
Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 11 3/4 in | 24.50 x 30 cm
Pages: 316
Reproductions: 216
Artist and Contributors
Paul Klee
A pioneering modernist of unrivaled creative output, Paul Klee (1879–1940) counts among the truly defining artists of the twentieth century, exploring and expanding the terrain of avant-garde art through work that ranges from stunning colorist grids to evocative graphic productions. Klee taught for a decade, from 1921 to 1931, at the Bauhaus, the famed German art and design school, and the novelty of his work and ideas established him as one of the institution’s foremost instructors.
Josef Helfenstein
Josef Helfenstein is the director of the Menil Collection in Houston. Prior to that he was the director of the Krannert Museum at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He has written and lectured worldwide on modern and contemporary art, and he has published numerous catalogs, including Louise Bourgeois: The Early Work, Paul Klee Rediscovered, and The Blue Four: Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, and Klee in the New World.
Elizabeth Hutton Turner
Jenny Anger
Vivian Endicott Barnett
Michael Baumgartner
Bradford Epley
Christa Haiml
Charles W. Haxthausen
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