Klee and AmericaMenil Collection, 2006 - 315 pages Paul Klee was a leading figure in European Modernism, and his acclaim at home was quickly matched in the United States, where both private collectors and major museums sought out his work. Klee and America explores the reasons for that enthusiastic reception, especially during the 1930s and 1940s, while the artist was being targeted in Hitler's campaign against Entartete Kunst (degenerate art). Just as the European market for Klee's work was collapsing, American patrons and curators were gobbling it up. And after he had been removed from his teaching post in Dsseldorf and had returned to his childhood home in Switzerland, Klee continued to be represented by a number of German-Jewish art dealers who had emigrated to the U.S. Eventually his work landed in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim, among others. Foremost among Klee's earliest American collectors was Katherine Dreier, whose Societe Anonyme, founded with artists Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, sponsored the exhibitions of pioneering abstract art in which his paintings were first shown in America. In Los Angeles, Walter and Louise Arensberg assembled a vast collection of Klee's paintings. In 1939, Alfred Barr Jr. bought a first canvas for MoMA. Klee and America examines this history and offers an impressive selection of Klee's finest "American" works, both paintings and drawings. |
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... Munich between 1909 and 1921. Bloch was the son of a St. Louis wholesale grocer of Bohemian Jewish ancestry . 32 He had moved to Munich with the financial support of his patron William Marion Reedy , editor - in - chief of the weekly ...
... Munich between 1909 and 1921. Bloch was the son of a St. Louis wholesale grocer of Bohemian Jewish ancestry . 32 He had moved to Munich with the financial support of his patron William Marion Reedy , editor - in - chief of the weekly ...
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... Munich avant - garde , were the target of bitter attacks by the New York press . The resulting furor led American art dealers and collectors to shift their attention away from Düsseldorf to the Munich scene ; the important art dealer ...
... Munich avant - garde , were the target of bitter attacks by the New York press . The resulting furor led American art dealers and collectors to shift their attention away from Düsseldorf to the Munich scene ; the important art dealer ...
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... Munich . Klee is drafted person into the German army . December : Klee returns home from military duty . February : Officially discharged from the military , Klee signs a three - year contract with the dealer Hans Goltz in Munich ...
... Munich . Klee is drafted person into the German army . December : Klee returns home from military duty . February : Officially discharged from the military , Klee signs a three - year contract with the dealer Hans Goltz in Munich ...
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