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Identification and Creation

Object Number
BR52.11
People
Paul Klee, Swiss (Münchenbuchsee near Bern, Switzerland 1879 - 1940 Muralto-Locarno, Switzerland)
Title
Death for the Idea
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1915
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/225209

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on cream wove paper
Technique
Lithograph
Dimensions
sheet: 23.9 x 15.8 cm (9 7/16 x 6 1/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Museum purchase
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
Accession Year
1952
Object Number
BR52.11
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Zentrum Paul Klee, ed., Paul Klee: Life and Work, Hatje Cantz Verlag (Ostfildern, Germany, 2012), p. 107, ill. (color)
  • John Sallis, ed., Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision: From Nature to Art, exh. cat., McMullen Museum of Art (Chestnut Hill, MA, 2012), pp. 146, 163, 257, 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
  • 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

Verification Level

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