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Freies, streng gefasst (Free forms rigidly mounted),
1930
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Born into a musical family, the painter, educator, and theoretician Paul Klee joined the Blaue Reiter circle in Munich in 1912. Following military service in the First World War, Klee joined the teaching staff at the Bauhaus, a post he held until the institution was dissolved in reaction to the rise of Fascism in 1933. The profoundly influential German school of fine and applied arts and architecture lasted only fourteen years yet propagated an aesthetic that came to epitomize international modernist design throughout the second half of the twentieth century.
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1930
Lily Klee, Bern (1940-46); Klee-Gesellschaft, Bern (1946-1949); Curt Valentin (Buchholz Gallery; Valentin Gallery), New York; Frederick C. Schang, South Norwalk, Connecticut; Eugene V. Thaw & Co., New York; Gallery Stephen Hahn, New York; Clinton Wilder, New York.
This provenance for the drawing is published in Klee's Catalogue Raisonne, vol. 5, no. 5259.
- Paul Klee: [Katalog einer] Gedächtnis Ausstellung im Kunsthalle Basel, (Basel: Kunsthalle, 1941)., p. 23, no. 204
- Paintings by Paul Klee, 1879-1940: March 9-April 1, 1951, (Palm Beach, FL: Society of the 4 Arts, 1951).
- Jürgen Glaesemer, Paul Klee: die farbigen Werke im Kunstmuseum Bern: Gemälde, farbige Blätter, Hinterglasbilder und Plastiken, (Bern: Kornfeld & Cie., 1976). , p. 176, fig. b
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1986," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 46, no. 1 (1987): p. 18–52, p. 33
- Paul Klee Foundation, Paul Klee: catalogue raisonné, (New York : Thames and Hudson, 1998-2004)., Vol. 5, p. 483, cat. no. 5259 (illus.)
