Paul Klee, August Macke, Louis Moilliet — The Journey to Tunisia 1914

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“The Tunisian journey is surely one of the most popular chapters in art history. When Paul Klee and his fellow painters August Macke and Louis Moilliet left for Tunisia in April 1914, a cornucopia of impressions awaited them: Tunis, St. Germain, Hammamet, Kairouan, and the people, architecture and scenery of the country inspired the three artists to produce a multitude of watercolors and drawings. They depart from the anecdotal Orientalism of the nineteenth century, abstracting their motifs and transforming them into ornamental shapes and crystalline structures. Their surprising, innovative images are a highlight of early Modernism. Klee went the farthest. For him, color became the most important creative tool; he dissolved the object in planes of color, and the visual construct became a pattern that he covered in arabesques and symbols.”

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Edited by Angela Nyffeler & Michael Baumgartner: The Journey to Tunisia 1914: Paul Klee, August Mackle, Louis Moilliet (ENGLISH VERSION). Published by Hatje Cantz for Zentrum Paul Klee Bern, 2014. Heavy 4to hardcover, no jacket as issued. 335 pages, illustrated in bw and color. Light denting to lower spine (see photos) else a fine clean and well preserved copy

With texts by Michael Baumgartner, Erich Franz, Ernst-Gerhard Güse, Ursula Heiderich, Anna M. Schafroth, Roger Benjamin, Christine Hopfengart

First edition

 

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Paul Klee, August Macke, Louis Moilliet — The Journey to Tunisia 1914