Colorful Architecture

Paul Klee

1917 · Gouache on paper mounted on cardboard · Modern and Contemporary Art

During World War I, every moment that he could get away from his clerical duties in the paymaster’s office at Gersthofen, near Augsburg, Klee devoted to his work. He would take a box of watercolors and paint out-of-doors. Here, a green moon and its mauve crescent are the only curved forms within an angular composition whose rectangles, triangles, and squares suggest the roofs and facades of houses.

Artist

Paul Klee

Date

1917

Medium

Gouache on paper mounted on cardboard

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984