Will Awaken
1935
About this artwork
A delicate watercolor painting featuring a stylized, mask-like face framed by an arch-like structure. The work is characteristic of Klee's exploration of signs and symbolic forms during the 1930s.
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Paul Klee painted this work in 1935, a period during which he began to suffer from a progressive and painful skin disease known as scleroderma. Despite his deteriorating health and the increasing political pressure in Germany under the Nazi regime, his art became increasingly simplified, showing a profound, almost childlike clarity that sought to distill the human experience into essential signs.
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Will Awaken
Paul Klee, 1935
