Grüne Pflanzen Blutlaus (Green Plant-Blood-Louse)
1924
Medium
watercolor with pen and black ink on gessoed cloth, on Klee's original mount
Dimensions
sheet: 20.16 × 32.07 cm (7 15/16 × 12 5/8 in.) mount: 31.75 × 42.86 cm (12 1/2 × 16 7/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth Carter Stevenson, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1991.38.1
About the Artist
Paul Klee
Paul Klee (1879–1940) was born in Münchenbuchsee, near Bern, Switzerland, into a family of musicians; his father was a German music teacher and his mother a trained singer. The musical environment of his childhood left permanent traces on his art, informing his lifelong interest in rhythm, counterpoint, and structural variation. He studied painting in Munich from 1898, absorbing the currents of la...