BR60.29: Kinetic Group

Identification and Creation

Object Number

BR60.29

People

Paul Klee, Swiss (Münchenbuchsee near Bern, Switzerland 1879 - 1940 Muralto-Locarno, Switzerland)

Title

Kinetic Group

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Bewegte Gruppe

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1930

Culture

German

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/223285

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink on off-white wove paper, mounted to off-white card

Dimensions

12.2 x 12.2 cm (4 13/16 x 4 13/16 in.)
mount: 26.9 x 22.8 cm (10 9/16 x 9 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: in black ink at l.r.: Klee
• inscription: l.c. of mount, black ink, handwritten, German, in artist's hand: 1930 [...] 4 .bewegte Gruppe

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Anonymous gift in memory of W. R. Koehler

Copyright

© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn

Accession Year

1960

Object Number

BR60.29

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• John Sallis, ed., Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision: From Nature to Art, exh. cat., McMullen Museum of Art (Chestnut Hill, MA, 2012), p. 222, ill.

Exhibition History

• Klee and Kandinsky: Works from the Harvard Collection and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 11/21/1980 - 01/17/1981
• Art of the Weimar Era, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 04/05/1982 - 05/22/1982
• Paul Klee, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/17/1993 - 06/13/1993
• Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision from Nature to Art, McMullen Museum of Art, Chestnut Hill, 09/01/2012 - 12/09/2012

Subjects and Contexts

• The Bauhaus

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