Artworks · Paul Klee

The Saint of the Inner Light

1921 · Lithograph on paper

Image: 3.1 × 17.4 cm (1 1/4 × 6 7/8 in.); Sheet: 39 × 26.8 cm (15 3/8 × 10 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Hoffmannesque Scene (Hoffmanneske Szene) from the portfolio New European Graphics, 1st Portfolio: Masters of the State Bauhaus, Weimar (Neue europäische Graphik, 1. Mappe: Meister des Staatlichen Bauhauses in Weimar), 1921

1921 · Lithograph

composition: 12 1/2 x 9" (31.8 x 22.8 cm); sheet: 14 x 10 3/16" (35.5 x 25.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Saint of the Inner Light (Die Heilige vom innern Licht) for the portfolio New European Graphics, 1st Portfolio: Masters of the Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar (Neue europäische Graphik, 1. Mappe: Meister des Staatlichen Bauhauses in Weimar)

1921 · Lithograph

composition: 11 1/4 x 6 1/4" (28.6 x 15.8 cm); sheet: 16 1/8 x 10 9/16" (41 x 26.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Hoffmannesque Scene (Hoffmanneske Szene) for the portfolio New European Graphics, 1st Portfolio: Masters of the Staatliches Bauhaus, Weimar (Neue europäische Graphik, 1. Mappe: Meister des Staatlichen Bauhauses in Weimar)

1921 · Lithograph

composition: 11 3/8 x 8 3/4" (28.9 x 22.2 cm); sheet (irreg.): 16 1/8 x 10 13/16" (41 x 27.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Queen of Hearts (Herzdame) from the periodical Der Ararat. Glossen, Skizzen und Notizen zur Neuen Kunst vol. 2, no. 4 (April 1921)

1921 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 10 1/16 x 6 15/16" (25.6 x 17.6 cm); sheet: 11 7/16 x 8 5/8" (29 x 21.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Saint of the Inner Light (Die Heilige vom innern Licht) from the portfolio New European Graphics, 1st Portfolio: Masters of the State Bauhaus, Weimar (Neue europäische Graphik, 1. Mappe: Meister des Staatlichen Bauhauses in Weimar), 1921

1921 · Lithograph

composition: 12 1/4 x 6 7/8" (31.1 x 17.4 cm); sheet: 15 3/16 x 10 3/8" (38.6 x 26.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Arrow before the Target (Der Pfeil vor dem Ziel)

1921 · Oil transfer drawing and watercolor on paper on board

9 3/8 x 12 1/2" (23.8 x 31.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Angler (Der Angler)

1921 · Oil transfer drawing, watercolor, and ink on paper with watercolor and ink borders on board

19 7/8 x 12 1/2" (50.5 x 31.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Die Heilige vom innern Licht (The Saint of the Inner Light)

1921 · color lithography on paper

Rijksmuseum

Baum und Architektur--Rhythmen (Tree and Architecture--Rhythms)

1920 · oil on paper

overall: 27.9 x 38.3 cm (11 x 15 1/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Park

1920 · color lithographic facsimile on laid paper

image: 12.4 x 10.2 cm (4 7/8 x 4 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Riesenblattlaus (Giant Aphid) from Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time)

1920 · lithograph from a bound volume with 15 lithographs, eight woodcuts, eight photomechanical reproductions, and one drypoint

National Gallery of Art

Park

1920 · color lithographic facsimile

image: 12.4 x 10.2 cm (4 7/8 x 4 in.) sheet: 26.9 x 18.6 cm (10 9/16 x 7 5/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

A Genius Serves a Small Breakfast (Ein Genius serviert ein kleines Frühstück)

1920 · lithograph

National Gallery of Art

They’re Biting

1920 · Watercolour and oil paint on paper

support: 311 x 235 mm

Tate

Transplant Metaphysical

1920 · Watercolor and black ink transfer, with pen and black ink, touches of red gouache, and traces of graphite, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream wood pulp laminate board

27.8 × 43.8 cm (11 × 17 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Schoolhouse

1920 · Oil on paper, on board

36.8 × 31.8 cm (14 1/2 × 12 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

An Angel Brings What Is Desired

1920 · Colored lithograph in black with additions of red and orange watercolor on cream wove paper

Image: 19.9 × 14.6 cm (7 7/8 × 5 3/4 in.); Sheet: 26 × 12.8 cm (10 1/4 × 5 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Giant Aphid (Riesenblattlaus) for the illustrated book Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart

1920 · Lithograph

composition: 8 1/4 x 4 3/4" (21 x 12 cm); sheet: 9 13/16 x 7 3/16" (25 x 18.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Giant Aphid (Riesenblattlaus)

1920 · Lithograph

composition: 5 3/8 x 2 1/4" (13.7 x 5.7 cm); sheet: 17 1/4 x 12 3/16" (43.8 x 31 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

A Guardian Angel Serves a Small Breakfast (Ein Genius serviert ein kleines Frühstück) from the yearbook Die Freude: Blätter einer neuen Gesinnung (Joy: Papers for a New Consciousness)

1920 · Lithograph with watercolor additions

composition: 7 7/8 x 5 7/8" (20 x 15 cm); sheet: 10 3/16 x 7 5/8" (25.8 x 19.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

A Guardian Angel Serves a Small Breakfast (Ein Genius serviert ein kleines Frühstück) for the yearbook Die Freude: Blätter einer neuen Gesinnung (Joy: Papers for a New Consciousness)

1920 · Lithograph

composition: 7 15/16 x 5 11/16" (20.1 x 14.4 cm); sheet: 11 1/4 x 7 11/16" (28.5 x 19.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Potted Plants I (Blumenstöcke I)

1920 · Lithograph with watercolor additions

composition: 7 1/2 x 5 3/8" (19 x 13.6 cm); sheet: 12 3/16 x 8 11/16" (31 x 22 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Christian Sectarian (Christlicher Sectierer)

1920 · Oil transfer drawing and watercolor on paper on board

12 3/8 x 9 1/8" (31.5 x 23.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Giant Aphid (Riesenblattlaus) (plate 10) from the illustrated book Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time)

1920 · Lithograph from an illustrated book with fifteen lithographs, eight woodcuts, eight reproductions and one lithographed cover

composition (irreg.): 5 3/8 x 2 5/16" (13.7 x 5.8 cm); page: 12 11/16 x 9 5/8" (32.3 x 24.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Terrible Dream

1919 · Lithograph on cream wove paper

28.3 × 22.4 cm (11 3/16 × 8 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Dying Light

1919 · Lithograph on cream Japanese paper

Image, sight: 16.5 × 14 cm (6 1/2 × 5 9/16 in.); Sheet: 30 × 25 cm (11 13/16 × 9 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Insects

1919 · Lithograph in black with additions of blue, green, and yellow watercolor on cream laid paper

Image: 20.1 × 15.2 cm (7 15/16 × 6 in.); Sheet: 28.8 × 22.8 cm (11 3/8 × 9 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Landscape of Number Trees

1919 · Lithograph in black with additions of blue, red, and green watercolor on cream laid paper

Image: 17.5 × 12.6 cm (6 15/16 × 5 in.); Sheet: 28 × 22.5 cm (11 1/16 × 8 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Death in the Garden (Legend)

1919 · Oil on cotton, on cardboard nailed to wood

27.3 × 24.8 cm (10 3/4 × 9 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

You Strong One, O-Oh Oh You! (plate facing page 46) from Potsdamer Platz oder Die Nächte des neuen Messias. Ekstatische Visionen (Potsdamer Platz or The Nights of the New Messiah. Ecstatic Visions)

1919 · One from an illustrated book with ten offset lithograph reproductions

composition (irreg.): 5 3/8 × 3 11/16" (13.7 × 9.4 cm); page (each): 8 × 5 5/16" (20.3 × 13.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Frontispiece (page 2) from Potsdamer Platz oder Die Nächte des neuen Messias. Ekstatische Visionen (Potsdamer Platz or The Nights of the New Messiah. Ecstatic Visions)

1919 · One from an illustrated book with ten offset lithograph reproductions

composition (irreg.): 5 5/16 × 3 7/8" (13.5 × 9.8 cm); page (each): 8 × 5 5/16" (20.3 × 13.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Yet Berlin, Our Citadel, Experienced a Suddent Ten-Fold Increase of Its Citizens (plate facing page 58) from Potsdamer Platz oder Die Nächte des neuen Messias. Ekstatische Visionen (Potsdamer Platz or The Nights of the New Messiah. Ecstatic Visions)

1919 · One from an illustrated book with ten offset lithograph reproductions

composition (irreg.): 5 3/8 × 3 7/8" (13.6 × 9.9 cm); page (each): 8 × 5 5/16" (20.3 × 13.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Consummation, Consummation (plate facing page 86) from Potsdamer Platz oder Die Nächte des neuen Messias. Ekstatische Visionen (Potsdamer Platz or The Nights of the New Messiah. Ecstatic Visions)

1919 · One from an illustrated book with ten offset lithograph reproductions

composition (irreg.): 5 3/16 × 3 13/16" (13.2 × 9.7 cm); page (each): 8 × 5 5/16" (20.3 × 13.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

One Iniquity Upon the Other Piled Up in This Way (plate facing page 76) from Potsdamer Platz oder Die Nächte des neuen Messias. Ekstatische Visionen (Potsdamer Platz or The Nights of the New Messiah. Ecstatic Visions)

1919 · One from an illustrated book with ten offset lithograph reproductions

composition (irreg.): 5 9/16 × 3 3/8" (14.1 × 8.6 cm); page (each): 8 × 5 5/16" (20.3 × 13.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Near Future Holds Mortal Danger (plate facing page 70) from Potsdamer Platz oder Die Nächte des neuen Messias. Ekstatische Visionen (Potsdamer Platz or The Nights of the New Messiah. Ecstatic Visions)

1919 · One from an illustrated book with ten offset lithograph reproductions

composition (irreg.): 5 1/4 × 2 15/16" (13.3 × 7.5 cm); page (each): 8 × 5 5/16" (20.3 × 13.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Higher, Fading Away (plate facing page 88) from Potsdamer Platz oder Die Nächte des neuen Messias. Ekstatische Visionen (Potsdamer Platz or The Nights of the New Messiah. Ecstatic Visions)

1919 · One from an illustrated book with ten offset lithograph reproductions

composition (irreg.): 5 3/8 × 4" (13.6 × 10.1 cm); page (each): 8 × 5 5/16" (20.3 × 13.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

I Am Sent to Relieve Mankind of a Nightmare (plate facing page 32) from Potsdamer Platz oder Die Nächte des neuen Messias. Ekstatische Visionen (Potsdamer Platz or The Nights of the New Messiah. Ecstatic Visions)

1919 · One from an illustrated book with ten offset lithograph reproductions

composition (irreg.): 4 13/16 × 3 1/16" (12.2 × 7.7 cm); page (each): 8 × 5 5/16" (20.3 × 13.5 cm)

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Womanhood Finally Redeemed (plate facing page 52) from Potsdamer Platz oder Die Nächte des neuen Messias. Ekstatische Visionen (Potsdamer Platz or The Nights of the New Messiah. Ecstatic Visions)

1919 · One from an illustrated book with ten offset lithograph reproductions

composition (irreg.): 5 1/2 × 3 3/16" (13.9 × 8.1 cm); page (each): 8 × 5 5/16" (20.3 × 13.5 cm)

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The Aim, My Aim! (plate facing page 22) from Potsdamer Platz oder Die Nächte des neuen Messias. Ekstatische Visionen (Potsdamer Platz or The Nights of the New Messiah. Ecstatic Visions)

1919 · One from an illustrated book with ten offset lithograph reproductions

composition (irreg.): 5 7/16 × 2 13/16" (13.8 × 7.1 cm); page (each): 8 × 5 5/16" (20.3 × 13.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Insects (Insekten) for the deluxe periodical Münchner Blätter für Dichtung und Graphik, vol. 1, no. 9 (September 1919)

1919 · Lithograph with watercolor additions

composition: 8 1/4 x 6" (20.9 x 15.3 cm); sheet: 11 15/16 x 9 1/8" (30.4 x 23.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Dying Light (Auslöschendes Licht) for the illustrated book Das Kestnerbuch (The Kestner Book)

1919 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 5 5/16 x 5 1/16" (13.5 x 12.8 cm); sheet: 11 13/16 x 9 3/4" (30 x 24.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Three Heads (Drei Köpfe)

1919 · Lithograph

composition (irreg.): 4 3/4 x 5 13/16" (12.1 x 14.8 cm); sheet: 7 3/4 x 9 3/16" (19.7 x 23.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Forest (Wald) from the deluxe periodical Münchner Blätter für Dichtung und Graphikvol. 1, no. 9

1919 · Lithograph

composition: 6 7/8 x 4 15/16" (17.4 x 12.6 cm); sheet: 11 1/4 x 8 15/16" (28.5 x 22.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Potsdamer Platz oder Die Nächte des neuen Messias. Ekstatische Visionen (Potsdamer Platz or The Nights of the New Messiah. Ecstatic Visions)

1919 · Illustrated book with ten offset lithograph reproductions

page (each): 8 × 5 5/16" (20.3 × 13.5 cm); overall (closed): 8 3/8 × 5 9/16 × 9/16" (21.2 × 14.2 × 1.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Acrobats (Akrobaten) (plate, page 10) from the periodical Münchner Blätter für Dichtung und Graphik, vol. 1, no. 1 (January 1919)

1919 · Lithograph from a periodical with six lithographs

composition (irreg.): 7 1/2 x 3 1/16" (19.1 x 7.7 cm); page: 10 13/16 x 8 9/16" (27.5 x 21.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Forest (Wald) (plate, page 142) from the periodical Münchner Blätter für Dichtung und Graphik, vol. 1, no. 9 (September 1919)

1919 · Lithograph from a periodical with five lithographs

composition (irreg.): 6 9/16 x 4 15/16" (16.7 x 12.5 cm); page: 10 13/16 x 8 9/16" (27.5 x 21.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Portrait (Porträt) (plate, page 143) from the periodical Münchner Blätter für Dichtung und Graphik, vol. 1, no. 9 (September 1919)

1919 · Lithograph from a periodical with five lithographs

composition (irreg.): 8 3/4 x 6 5/16" (22.2 x 16 cm); page: 10 13/16 x 8 9/16" (27.5 x 21.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art