Angelus Novus,” an artwork with a fascinating back story, including most recently a wartime delay, is a late addition to an ...

A visitor viewing Paul Klee’s prints and paintings in the McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College might initially feel like the "Tightrope Walker’’ in his 1923 lithograph, stepping precariously along ...

"Color possesses me," 36-year-old Paul Klee declared in 1915. "I am a painter." He painted with a rainbow of watercolors and oils, then described geometric and imaginary figures mostly as line ...

It took 26 years, but the legal battle over the ownership of Paul Klee’s Swamp Legend (1919), seized by Nazis as “degenerate” art in the 1930s, has reached a settlement. The city of Munich, where the ...

The current exhibition of art and design from the Bauhaus, the revolutionary German art school that was founded on April 1, 1919, includes works by many members of the Bauhaus community. Whether they ...

When Paul Klee applied for Swiss nationality after fleeing Nazi Germany, his request was refused because it was feared that if his art should "take root in Switzerland, it would insult real art and ...

Paul Klee, “Bild aus dem Boudoir Image tirée du boudoir” (1922), copy in oil and watercolor on paper on card (all images courtesy Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, unless indicated otherwise) (click to enlarge ...

WE sometimes forget how immense a revolution modernism brought about in the arts. It is hard to keep remembering, for instance, that non-representational (or abstract) panying, now so familiar a style ...