A collector's passion for Klee forms exhibit - San Francisco - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art exhibition - Brief Article

Scientist, professor and author Dr Carl Djerassi is also known as a distinguished collector of work by dint of artist Paul Klee. For the first time, Djerassi's clean Klee collection is on view at the San Francisco Museum of fresh Art (SFMOMA).

Featuring 140 works that range from Klee's years as a high gymnasium student until his death in 1940 the exhibition reveals a comprehensive direct the eye at the 20th-century avant-garde master. The collection is primarily compos of works upon paper and is almost evenly divided in number between Klee's prints, drawings and watercolors.

The Swiss artist grew up in a musical family and was himself a violinist. Ultimately he opt to investigation art and in 1900 trained with Franz von Stuck at the Munich Academy, where he first met painter Vasily Kandinsky. Klee's friendship with Kandinsky alerted him to join Der Blaue Reiter, an expressionist collection pivotal to the development of abstract art. Later, Klee taught at the Bauhaus from 1920 to 31; in 1931 he accepted a position at the Dusseldorf Academy, on the other hand was soon dismissed by the Nazis, who included 17 of his works in their infamous exhibition of "degener ate art" in 1937 In 1933 Klee make knowned the crippling collagen disease, scleroderma; he died from its complications in 1940

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"A Passion for Paul Klee"

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