Klee - His Life and Work [antikvár]

I SELF-PORTRAIT—DRAWING FOR A WOODCUT. 1909. The Little Arab The son of a Swiss mother and a German father, Paul Klee was a wonderful epitome of the physical and psychological characteristics of both his parents. It would be difficult—indeed almost impossible—to be more German and yet more Swiss than he. But some distant trace of the Mediterranean had left its mark on him both physically and spiritually. In photographs taken when he was a child, he has the secretive, sensual face of a little Arab. As an adult he was always to feel strongly the lure of the Mediterranean. The thin line of the beard running straight from the corners of his mouth, his thick lips and dark, penetrating eyes are characteristically African. And because of this remote influence which has never been accurately defined by ! k