Paul Klee - Die Sammlung Sylvie und Jorge Helft

Drawing occupies a prominent place in the work of Paul Klee (1879-1940). Klee attached great importance to drawing, and in particular to the line as the principle from which the realization and visual generation of an idea emanates. This aspect is also a core interest of collectors Sylvie and Jorge Helft, who over almost five decades have assembled some seventy of Klee's pencil, pen, and pastel drawings, as well as watercolors, etchings, and lithographs, created by the artist between 1914 and 1940. The Helfts' Klee collection forms an extraordinarily coherent whole.
This German language book, published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana (MASI) in Lugano, features for the first time this unique selection from Klee's oeuvre. A conversation between Sylvie and Jorge Helft and MASIS's director Tobia Bezzola, as well as essays by philosopher Francisco Jarauta, art and literary critic Juan Manuel Bonet, and art dealer and curator Achim Moeller, complement the full color plates.

About the author

Francesca Bernasconi
ist Kunsthistorikerin und seit 2017 als Leiterin Ausstellungsorganisation am MASI Lugano tätig.

Arianna Quaglio
ist Assistenzkuratorin am MASI Lugano.

Summary

Eine ausserordentliche Sammlung von Zeichnungen, Aquarellen und Druckgrafik Paul Klees

Product details

• Authors: Tobia Bezzola, Juan Bonet, Francisco Jarauta
• Assisted by: Francesca Bernasconi (Editor), Arianna Quaglio (Editor)
• Publisher: Scheidegger & Spiess
• Languages: German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2022
• EAN: 9783039421060
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3942106-0
• No. of pages: 212
• Dimensions: 213 mm x 31 mm x 276 mm
• Weight: 850 g
• Illustrations: 92 farbige und 7 s/w-Abbildungen
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts; Moderne Kunst, Kunst, Zeichnung, Druckgrafik, Radierung, Aquarell, Bildband, einzelne Künstler, Künstlermonografien, Ausstellungskataloge, Museumskataloge und Sammlungen, Paul Klee, Klassische Moderne, Lithografie, bildende Kunst, Zeichnen und Zeichnungen, MASI Lugano, Museo d'arte della Svizzera italiana, Jorge Helft, Achim Moeller, Francisco Jarauta, Sylvie Helft, Tobia Bezzola, Juan Manuel Bonet