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Paul Klee / Architecture

Architecture

1923 · Oil on hardboard

Overlapping translucent rectangles of colour build an imagined townscape, painted while Klee was teaching colour theory at the Bauhaus.

LocationBerlin, Germany
Genreabstract art
Dimensions58 × 39 cm

Why it matters

This largely abstract work belongs to Klee's 'magic squares' series, in which he studied the effect of repeating the same elements. He painted it, made while he taught at the Bauhaus.

Did you know?

  • It was painted in 1923.
  • It may reflect Schoenberg's twelve-tone music.
  • It is in the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

Based on the Wikipedia article Architecture (Klee) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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