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The painting was produced during his "most prolific period"—the years spent at the Bauhaus, a German art school—which was established by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919 and closed in 1933, "when the Nazis enforced their own definitions of art and its functions". Klee, alongside artists such as Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Anni and Josef Albers, was a teacher and resident artist. In his 2009 book, Nicolas Fox Weber The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism, Weber wrote that Klee "brought the liberating spirit of surrealism to the Bauhaus".The 1988 book published by MoMa, entitled Paul Klee: The Berggruen Klee Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, described Klee as one of the most popular artists in the 20th century and one of "the most written about". Klee produced over 9,000 works.
Klee was the son of a musicologist and he drew parallels between sound and art.The painting has been described as surrealist. Along with other works by Klee during the Bauhaus period in Dessau, it has also been called interpretative, and later, constructivist. His work has been compared to works by Malevich, Gabo and Tatlin. This painting has similarities to other works by Klee, such his Rope Tilers.
Gabo Bauhaus Wassily Kandinsky Anni Paul Klee Malevich surrealist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Dessau Rope Tilers Walter Gropius constructivist Tatlin Weimar German art school MoMa Metropolitan Museum of Art Josef Albers