id: 156571 accession number: 1992.278 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.278 updated: 2023-11-28 18:35:22.175000 God of War, 1937. Paul Klee (German, 1879–1940). Gouache and tempera; sheet: 35.2 x 29 cm (13 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.); secondary support: 64.6 x 49.3 cm (25 7/16 x 19 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Lockwood Thompson 1992.278 title: God of War title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1937 creation date earliest: 1937 creation date latest: 1937 current location: creditline: Bequest of Lockwood Thompson copyright: --- culture: Germany, 20th century technique: Gouache and tempera department: Drawings collection: DR - German type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: Helfenstein and Rümelin 6961 --- CREATORS * Paul Klee (German, 1879–1940) - artist --- measurements: Sheet: 35.2 x 29 cm (13 7/8 x 11 7/16 in.); Secondary Support: 64.6 x 49.3 cm (25 7/16 x 19 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: newspaper tipped onto cream(3) wove paper (artist's mount) watermarks: inscriptions: inscription: signed, upper left, in paint: Klee; secondary support, by artist, lower center, in brown ink: 1937 K. 5. Kriegs Gott ["37 K. 5. Kriegs Gott" underlined in graphite]; lower center, in graphite: III; verso of secondary support, upper left, in graphite: Nos 39 31 / 35 x 29 [all circled]; upper left, on separately applied label: [upper portion cropped] / 1937 [inscribed in blue ink] No [printed in black ink] 0843 [stamped in blue ink] / Paul Klee / Dieu de la Guerre / 35 x 29 [last three lines inscribed in blue ink] / Photo No [printed in black ink] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Selected Acquisitions opening date: 1993-02-09T05:00:00 Selected Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993). title: Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00 Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000); The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (May 23-August 19, 2001); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 14, 2001-January 6, 2002). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Exhibition of Expressionism and Related Movements. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 25 - February 28, 1939). * Paul Klee: Memorial Exhibition. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA (1941); Arts Club of Chicago (1940); Portland Art Museum, Oregon (1941); San Francisco Museum of Art (April 14 - May 5, 1941); Stendahl Art Galleries, Los Angeles (May 8 - May 18, 1941); City Art Museum, St. Louis (1941); Wellesley College, MA (1941); Museum of Modern Art, New York (1941). * Paul Klee. Buchholz Gallery/Willard Gallery, New York (October 9 - November 2, 1940). * Paul Klee: Oeuvres Récentes. Galerie Simon, Paris (January 24 - February 5, 1938). --- PROVENANCE (Galerie Jeanne Bucher-Myrbor, Paris, sold to Lockwood Thompson) date: September 14, 1938 footnotes: citations: Lockwood Thompson [1901-1992], Cleveland, OH, bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1938-1992 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1992- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Helfenstein, Josef and Christian Rümelin. Paul Klee: Catalogue Raisonné. Bern: Kunstmuseum Bern, 1998-2004 page number: Mentioned and reproduced: vol. 7, no. 6961 url: Paul Klee: Oeuvres Récentes. Exh. Cat. Paris: Galerie Simon, 1938.
 page number: Mentioned: no. 34 url: Paul Klee. Exh. Cat. New York: Buchholz Gallery/Willard Gallery, 1940. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: no. 86 url: Vishny, Michèle. "Paul Klee and War: A Stance of Aloofness." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 92 (December 1978): 233-243 page number: Mentioned: p. 241 url: Kersten, Wolfgang. Paul Klee, Übermut: Allegorie der künstlerischen Existenz. Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1990. page number: Mentioned: pp. 60-61; Reproduced: p. 63 url: "The Year in Review for 1992." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 80, no. 2 (February 1987): 39-72. page number: Mentioned: p. 72, no. 230; Reproduced: p. 62 url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/25161388 Kersten, Wolfgang and Osamu Okuda. Paul Klee: Im Zeichen der Teilung. Exh. Cat. Düsseldorf: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 1995. page number: Mentioned: pp. 214-215 url: Francis, Henry S. "Exhibition of Expressionism and Related Movements." Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 2 (February 1939): 19. page number: Mentioned: p. 19 url: DeLamater, Peg. "Klee and India: Krishna Themes in the Art of Paul Klee." PhD diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1991. page number: Mentioned: p. 245 url: DeGrazia, Diane, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2000. page number: Mentioned: p. 11, pp. 260-261, 298; Reproduced: p. 261 url: Uhde-Stahl, Brigitte. Paul Klees geheime Symbolik. Berlin : Gebr. Mann Verlag, [2018] page number: Reproduced: p. 264; mentioned: pp. 335-337 url: --- IMAGES