Viaducts Break Ranks

ID: #417 | Expresionism | Abstract

Date: 1937

The painting features an abstract composition reminiscent of irregularly arranged geometric shapes that evoke the form of building elements or an architectural sketch. The colours are warm, with predominant shades of yellow, orange and brown, while the contours are in black. The artwork has a strong graphic character and can be interpreted as a stylized view of an urban landscape or an abstract map.

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Klee painted picture Viaducts Break Ranks in 1937. Prevailing color of this fine art print is vivid and its shape is portrait. This image is printed on demand - you can choose material, size and finishing.

Paul Klee (1879-1940). From childhood, he was interested in both music and painting, but as is evident, finally decided on painting - his paintings are among prized artworks. In Munich, he met Kandinsky, Franz Marc, and other artists of the then avant-garde. He met also his future wife, pianist Lily Stumpf. His work is associated with a expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was one of the four Die Blaue Vier (with Kandinsky, Feininger and Jawlensky). He taught at Bauhaus and the Düsseldorf Academy until 1933, when the Nazis declared his paintings a figment of a sick soul and with labelled his whole creation as degenerate art. Klee was extremely hardworking and after his death, he left behind 8926 works in Switzerland. Klee’s paintings are fragile, with a sensitive use of color (his colour mixing ranks among the world’s best) and frequent references to poetry, music and dreams.