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After his visit to Tunisia with Macke and Louis Moilliet in 1914, he wrote: “Color has taken possession of me no longer do I have to chase after it, I know that it has hold of me forever.” Color was always one of the main defining agents in his work, and he is considered one of the greatest colorists ever. Details were important to Klee: he worked on many different mediums and explored countless combinations of lines, circles and arrows in his paintings. The paintings, and there are thousands of them, stand out as much for their vibrant color and expressive nature as for the mystery hidden behind each brush stroke. In “Animal Catching a Scent,” from 1930, a sleek, stream-lined animal stands out bravely against a grey minimalist background. “Howling Dog,” from 1928, shows the whimsical image of a dog howling at the moon in a fantastic exploration of the mysteries of nature. “Twittering Machine,” from 1922, is a half-surreal work where birds sing out exclamation points. They carry evocative titles, which make the works all the more powerful and meaningful.

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His animal paintings are full of allusions to dreams, nature, and music. Other animals, including dogs, fish, birds and even camels also feature prominently in the artist’s paintings from the different periods. Among these works are “Cat waking up in the morning,” “Thinking Cat,” “Cat and Bird” and the well-known color study from 1938, “Bimbo,” which is in the Paul Klee Center today. In fact, he produced as many as 28 works referring to cats, including paintings, drawings and nature studies, using his own animals as inspiration. With the inspiration of Bimbo in his studio, it is not surprising that cats often made their way into Klee’s paintings. He paints ten or twenty at the same time.” As an artist, Klee continuously entered different worlds, and he needed to be able to paint them all at the same time. A student once said: “It’s as if he mass-produced the paintings. He was an energetic artist who often worked on several paintings at once. He was part of the Blaue Reiter group from 1911 onward, and in 1920 joined the Bauhaus school at the invitation of Walter Gropius. He studied music before turning to painting, and attended the Munich Academy in 1900. Klee was born near Bern in December 1879. My cat will tell me all.” The cat on the windowsill was, of course, Bimbo, who also appears in Marina Alberghini’s book, expressively titled “Il gatto cosmico di Paul Klee.” Klee told me the cat looked at me insistently: You can’t have any secrets. I could see him perfectly from my private room. “In Dessau, his cat always looked out the window in the studio. In her memoir “Kandinsky and I,” Nina Kandinsky remembers Klee’s love for animals, and in particular for cats. Years later, Klee shared his studio with his feline friend, Bimbo, a beautiful white long-haired cat who followed him everywhere.

Klee’s love for cats started at a young age, since cats were a part of the family when he was growing up. In the case of Klee, one such image is the artist’s love for animals, in particular for cats, evident behind each expressive brush stroke.

Learning about such a famous personality is like trying to piece together a jigsaw puzzle: you feel like you’re getting nowhere until, suddenly, something clicks and the central image appears. Paul Klee – his life’s work has been described as the “chamber music of modern art,” and his name is spoken with something akin to reverence by art lovers all over the world.

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