Heroic Roses
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| Artist | Paul Klee |
| Year | 1938 |
| Medium | oil on stained canvas |
| Dimensions | 68 cm × 52 cm (27 in × 20 in) |
| Location | Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf |
Heroic Roses, known in German as Heroische Rosen, is an oil on stained canvas expressionist painting by Swiss-German painter Paul Klee, from 1938. It is held in the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, in Düsseldorf.
Meaning and history[edit]
Heroic Roses was one of Klee's paintings in the final period before his death on June 29, 1940. In 1935 Klee started to suffer from scleroderma, which took a toll on his health.[1] Paintings during this period tended to be simpler and representative of the suffering he was going through.[2]
Hieroglyphics[edit]
The painting also represents hieroglyphics, an interest of Klee's during this time,[3] which can also be seen in many of his late 1930s and early 1940s paintings, such as Insula dulcamara (1938) and Death and Fire (1940).
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Varga, J. (November 2004). "Illness and art: the legacy of Paul Klee". Current Opinion in Rheumatology. 16 (6): 714–717. doi:10.1097/01.bor.0000144759.30154.84. PMID 15577609.
- ^ Aronson, Jeffrey; Ramachandran, Manoj (2010-02-01). "The diagnosis of art: Scleroderma in Paul Klee – and Rembrandt's scholar?". Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine. 103 (2): 70–71. doi:10.1258/jrsm.2009.09k079. PMC 2813781. PMID 22141181.
- ^ "Death and Fire, 1940 by Paul Klee". Paul Klee.net. Retrieved 2014-05-16.
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