Pocket Guide -> Media -> Watercolor on tan paper, laid down -> View of Saint Germain
View of Saint Germain
by Paul Klee · German, 1879 - 1940
| Creation Date: | 1914 |
| Media & Support: | Watercolor on tan paper, laid down |
| Dimensions: | 9 x 11 1/8 inches |
| Credit: | Gift of Howard D. and Babette L. Surak, the Donors to the Campaign for Enduring Excellence, and the Derby Fund |
Swiss-German artist Paul Klee’s highly personal vision has made him one of the wittiest and most original of the modern masters. View of Saint Germain is a pivotal work in Klee’s oeuvre. In April 1914, he went to Tunisia, where he discovered the joy of color, declaring, “Color and I are one. I am a painter.” Klee derived his color shapes from the planes and facets of Cubism; here the shapes are simultaneously abstract patterns and representations of walls, roofs, fences, gardens, and mountains.
