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Paul Klee Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
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Original works by Paul Klee available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Paul Klee at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Click "View all" to see a total of 41 works online
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW!
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History
12 works online
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Artworks in the museum's collections database
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Marjamshausen, watercolor, 1928
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Watercolor collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Menacing Head, 1905
(In the "Etching" section)
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Angst
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Paul Klee Centre, Bern, Switzerland
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice NEW!
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Alea jacta / The die is cast
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Allen Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio
The Kettledrum Organ (Die Paukenorgel)
Ball State Museum of Art, Indiana
Was Lauft Er?, 1932
Bauhaus-Archiv Museum of Design, Berlin
Description of Paul Klee's class on "Elemental Design Theory", taught at the Bauhaus school 1921-1931
(Several of Klee's works can be found elsewhere on the site)
Beyeler Foundation Collection, Switzerland
Waldhexen, 1938
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Agricultural Experimental Plan for Late Fall, 1922
Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland NEW!
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
Strassenverkehr, 1913
Goulandris Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art, Andros Island, Greece
Some information about a 1993 exhibition
Guilford College Art Gallery, North Carolina
Hammer Museum, California
The King of All Insects (Der König alles Ungeziefers), 1922
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire
Naturalistic Sketch of a Young Girl, 1916
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Kunsthaus Zurich
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "K"
Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, Switzerland (mostly in German) 
Tänzerpaar, 1923
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
Lenbach House, Munich, Germany (in German)
Artworks from the site's databank: Select the artist in the "Künstler" column
Lille Metropole Musee d'Art Moderne, France (in French)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Fairy Tales
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
4 works online
MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
(You need to click the "right" arrow eleven times)
Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna, Italy
Ein park abends spat (Scroll down to the bottom of the page)
Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna, Italy
Freieres in fester kleinsteillung (Scroll down to the bottom of the page)
Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna, Italy
Näctheliche Landschaft (Scroll down to the bottom of the page)
Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna, Italy
Namens Zweizahn (Scroll down to the bottom of the page)
Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna, Italy
Szene vor der Stadt (Scroll down to the bottom of the page)
Museo d'Arte della Città di Ravenna, Italy
Was alles hängt (Scroll down to the bottom of the page)
Museo del Territorio Biellese, Biella, Italy (in Italian)
Gebärde Eines Antlitzes II
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Beschwingte Bindungen, 1930
Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
18 works by Klee
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh
Der Pathetiker, 1922
Oglethorpe University Museum, Georgia
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Mit dem Kometen, 1917
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Aviatic Evolution, 1934
The Man of Confusion, 1939
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Flower Myth, 1918
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
Ships' Warning
State Museums of Berlin
State Museums of Berlin
State Museums of Berlin
State Museums of Berlin
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Stiftung Moritzburg, Moritzburg, Germany (in German)
Phantastische Flora (Fantastic Flora), 1922
The Albertina, Vienna
The Fairytale of the Two Fish, 1937, 187
The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland
The Sublime Aspect, 1923
Paul Klee at the The British Museum, London, UK
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
2 works online when last checked
Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIKART) 
Click "works" & search for artworks; click "exhibitions" & search for current exhibitions worldwide
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Art Signature Dictionary NEW!
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Paul Klee
Website about Paul Klee and his paintings
Paul Klee at The Athenaeum
9 works online by Klee
Paul Klee in the WebMuseum
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Paul Klee at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Rasiel's Wallpapers
(Click on the size of the scan you wish to view)
The Halter Collection
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Additional Image Search Tools:
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Miscellaneous Sites:
FBI Art Theft Program
Palaste (Palace)
Mistica info (in Italian)
Torre doppia, 1923
Mistica info (in Italian)
Testa con barba alla tedesca, 1920
Mistica info (in Italian)
Strade principali e secondarie, 1929
Mistica info (in Italian)
Palazzo parzialmente distrutto, 1926
Museo Virtual del Surrealismo
The Twittering Machine
The Legacy Project
"A gathering place for people interested in the enduring legacies of the many violent traumas of the 20th century"
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Paul Klee
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Spartacus Educational Books
War Artists of W.W.I.
The Art Story
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"The line king", 2000 article by Adrian Searle
Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation
Multimedia:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Interactive Flash feature: Paul Klee's Versunkenheit (Absorption)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Interactive Flash feature: Paul Klee's Rotes Haus
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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Paul Klee: His Work and Thought
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Paul Klee, 1879-1940
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The Diaries of Paul Klee, 1898-1918
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Masters of Art: Klee
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Klee: Cameo
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Paul Klee Rediscovered: Works from the Burgi Collection
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Paul Klee: Painting Music
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