Heroic Roses
ArtistPaul Klee
Year1938
Mediumoil on stained canvas
Dimensions68 cm × 52 cm (27 in × 20 in)
LocationKunstsammlung 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

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

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).

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References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ "Death and Fire, 1940 by Paul Klee". Paul Klee.net. Retrieved 2014-05-16.
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