The personal notebooks of one of the well-known artists hailing from Bauhaus, a school of the arts in Germany that dominated the world of paintings, graphics, architecture, and interior design during the 1920s and 1930s are now available to view for free. The artist is Paul Klee, born in Switzerland and taught at the institution for ten years.
The Zentrum Paul Klee, a museum in Bern, Switzerland, has decided to show the world multiple pages from his notebooks. Viewers can have access to the detailed notes he made for his class thanks to the 3,900 compiled, restored, and preserved by the museum.
The journals include entries in German and numerous sketches and diagrams covering topics like color theory and design. “The writings which compose Paul Klee's theory of form production and pictorial form have the same importance and the same meaning for modern art as had Leonardo's writings which composed his theory of painting for Renaissance art,” Giulio Carlo Argan. Zentrum Paul Klee's resource wrote on the website.
Image credit: Zentrum Paul Klee