Riesenblattlaus (Giant Aphid) from Deutsche Graphiker der Gegenwart (German Printmakers of Our Time)
1920
Medium
lithograph on card from a bound volume with 16 lithographs (including cover), eight woodcuts, and eight photomechanical reproductions
Dimensions
book: 33 × 25 × 1.3 cm (13 × 9 13/16 × 1/2 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ingrid Rose in memory of her husband Milton Rose
Accession Number
2014.7.3.8
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...