File puptcrit/puptcrit.0508, message 414


Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:48:35 -0700
To: puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org
From: Mary Decker <marydeck-AT-earthlink.net>
Subject: [Puptcrit] RE: Paul Klee book


Hi Ray and All,

The book I have (entitled simply "Paul Klee") offers only two pages 
of very flowery text.  The rest is color plates.  But in the few 
written words, the book says that Paul Klee's puppets were used only 
by his children, in the privacy of their own home.  Honestly, though, 
there is such emphasis in this book on being flowery and artsy, that 
I wonder if the words reflect true research and facts.

Here is another quote: "Deeply moved, I asked whether it might be 
possible to bring these puppets out of their seclusion and present 
them to the public; to install them in a museum and there begin the 
puppet show anew, on a larger stage than the one where they had once 
performed for a child and his family.  They had been the privileged 
playthings of a little boy and his family circle, the maskers of a 
private dreamworld of allegory and fable.  Were they now to be 
brought before an unknown audience, their seeming pact of silence 
suddenly broken? Provided that the museum could exhibit them to good 
advantage, Mr. Felix Klee agreed to the idea of revealing the puppets 
to the public at the Neuchatel Museum."

That was in 1977.  It sounds like the puppets were never used for 
public performances.

Mary Decker

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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 09:26:57 +0100
From: "Ray DaSilva" <dasilva-AT-puppetbooks.co.uk>
Subject: RE: [Puptcrit] Paul Klee book
To: <puptcrit-driftline.org-AT-lists.driftline.org>
Message-ID: <003201c5a6f3$49df4580$4d469451-AT-PuppeteersUK>

Dear Mary and all
I am still keen to know if the puppets illustrated were ever used in any
public performances or were they just for home entertainment. Is there
anything in the book to indicate otherwise?
Jurkowski says "Between 1916 and 1925 Klee made puppets for his son
Felix.  The heads were made of gypsum [plaster of Paris] and the puppets
were dressed by a famous maker, Sasha Morenthaler.  Klee's puppet
theatre was taken to the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dassau in 1920, where it
apparently offered excellent productions impressing all who saw them."
Hist European Pptry Volume2 P62.
But perhaps those performances may have had nothing to do with Klee?
Ray

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