Garden (Garten)

Paul Klee

1910

A drypoint print in which Paul Klee uses incisive, calligraphic marks to suggest a small, dreamlike garden—an experiment in rhythm and symbolic line rather than faithful depiction.

At first glance the sheet reads as a tangle of sharp, hairlike strokes that resolve into leaves, stems and a distant horizon, the pale paper lending the etched lines a fragile, lyrical energy.

Made during Klee’s formative years, this print anticipates his later synthesis of abstract sign, musical rhythm, and pictorial poetry, showing how printmaking served as a laboratory for his modernist ideas.

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Art Terms

Drypoint Intaglio Print Expressionism Der Blaue Reiter(The Blue Rider) Calligraphy Gestural

Exhibitions

Prints by Paul Klee

1954

Paul Klee

1941

Paul Klee

1987

Paul Klee Centennial: Prints and Transfer Drawings

1979