Paul Klee (1879-1940) made eight puppets for his son Felix’s ninth birthday. The lad loved them. So, between 1916 and 1925 Klee made around 50 more
Paul Klee (1879-1940) made eight puppets for his son Felix’s ninth birthday. The lad loved them. So, between 1916 and 1925 Klee made around 50 more
Paul Klee (1879-1940) made eight puppets for his son Felix’s ninth birthday. The lad loved them. So, between 1916 and 1925 Klee made around 50 more
В Пушкинском музее открылась первая в России большая ретроспектива Пауля Клее, одного из самых известных художников XX века. «Воздух» прошелся по экспозиции с …
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It’s Paul Klee week on Dangerous Minds! After who knows how many years of never mentioning him once in a headline, we’re now going to do it two days in a row. We did so yesterday, with Paul Gallagher’s post about the welcome news that the Swiss artist’s enormous collection of notebooks is available to be viewed online. Not failing to notice that the nation, nay the very planet, was gripped with a kind of Klee fever, we’re doing our best to keep up. So today we bring you some evocative pics of the many charming and amusing hand puppets that Klee made for his son Felix. He made about 50 of them, but only 30 are still in existence. He used whatever materials were at hand: beef bones and electrical outlets, bristle brushes, nutshells and fur. The puppets date from between 1916 and 1925. In researching the topic, I came across the German word Kasperl (pron. KASH-pell), which is the German-language equivalent of British Punch and Judy puppets and the French Guignol puppets, both of which find their origins in Puncinella, a clown character from Italy’s commedia dell’arte. I bring it up only because I...
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Felix Klee’s theatre set with the puppet characters of Kasperl and the Devil. 1924. In a little to-and-fro in the previous Artlog post’s comment-box, I told Bev about a puppet theatre a…
