With the Dot
1916
- Medium
- pen and black ink
- Dimensions
- 12.4 × 14.5 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-209753
Paul Klee made this drawing during World War I. It shows a hovering figure, who could be saintly or demonic, overlooking a scene that includes a zeppelin, a decapitated child, a fallen soldier, and a recoiling (or attacking) figure. The soldier’s helmet displays a handle, implying the mechanized or dehumanized war machine. Klee’s title for the drawing includes the depiction of a point (•), which refers to the circular zeppelin or circle that frequently appeared in his drawings as a menacing omen. In 1915 Klee wrote: “The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract; while …
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Contemporary Collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1961.50
Registry history
- 1916 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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