Paul KleeDeutschland, 1879–1940Howling Dog
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Minneapolis Institute of Art
SaalG376Minneapolis, Vereinigte Staaten
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- 25. Sept. 2026
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About the painting
Klee's playful depiction of a solitary dog baying at a radiant moon exemplifies the artist's reliance on a linear style of representation. Using a series of sinuous lines, Klee creates a harmonious arrangement of three distinct forms: a dog, the moon, and in an unusual but charming visualization of sound, the dog's extended howl. Placed at the center of an amorphous ground of swirling colors, the dog's howl assumes a dominant pictorial role, winding, bending on itself, hanging in the night air like a wisp of smoke, while representing a visual as well as temporal record of the emanating sound. Klee's two-dimensional composition effectively supplants traditional spatial illusion, revealing a simple, yet elegant ideogram for the painting's whimsical subject.
Minneapolis Institute of Art
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- 56.42
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- Minneapolis Institute of Art: the museum's own open data · abgerufen vor 5 Tagen
- Bild: Minneapolis Institute of Art — © Minneapolis Institute of Art
Derweil im Leben von Paul Klee
Das ganze Leben1921–1931
The preliminary course on the “theory of form”
Klee developed a preliminary course in the “theory of form” that began with the “point as the beginning of all beginnings”, moving through space, and the “cosmic egg” from which line, spiral, square, circle and cube are born. Students listened to lectures illustrated with Klee’s own abstract watercolours and then painted their own, trying to express movement, balance, flight and tension.
1928–1929
A journey to Egypt
Egypt impressed Klee less than Tunisia, yet in the desert he felt an almost mystical bond with the land: he was drawn to the proportions of the ancient funerary monuments and to the esoteric numerology by which they were built. His later “Ad Parnassum” was influenced by the trip.
1929
The first major monograph on Klee
In 1929 the first major monograph on Klee’s work was published; it was written by Will Grohmann, a confidant of the artist.
