I was amazed at the range and scale of Klee's work which emerged over the 17 rooms of the exhibition. One of the cards talks about a year near his death when he 'only' produced 25 works.
All sorts of influiences on him and from him can be seen in the exhibition.Apart from Kandinsky, some of his work reminded me of Chagall and his influence upon Miro seems clear.
His work as an extremely conscientious member of the Bauhaus faculty is well conveyed. He seemed meticulous in everything he did - from the preparation of his lectures to the cataloguing of his 9000 works, let alone the works themselves. These often embody tiny painstaking detail and are the product of innovaton and experiementation - such as the oil transfer method of 'tracing' a line of oil onto paper.
He died in the same year as his father (1940) but 30 years younger.
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