For his 50th birthday a long-cherished wish came true for Paul Klee. He traveled to Egypt from December 17, 1928, to January 17, 1929. The Klee Society, founded by the collector Otto Ralfs, paid the travel expenses. Paul Klee recorded his impressions on postcards and in letters, most of them to his wife Lili Klee in Dessau.

For his 50th birthday a long-cherished wish came true for Paul Klee. He traveled to Egypt from December 17, 1928, to January 17, 1929. The Klee Society, founded by the collector Otto Ralfs, paid the travel expenses. Paul Klee recorded his impressions on postcards and in letters, most of them to his wife Lili Klee in Dessau.

For his 50th birthday a long-cherished wish came true for Paul Klee. He traveled to Egypt from December 17, 1928, to January 17, 1929. The Klee Society, founded by the collector Otto Ralfs, paid the travel expenses. Paul Klee recorded his impressions on postcards and in letters, most of them to his wife Lili Klee in Dessau.

Egypt 1928

Paul Klee’s extraordinary pictorial worlds are the result of a complex artistic development. He received crucial impulses during is travels. These were experiences with a long-lasting impact that Klee documents in diaries, postcards and numerous letters.
Five such journeys will provide insights into Klee’s artistic development: from being a student full of doubts to one of the most important modern artists. The podcast "Mapping Klee" follows Klee's tracks through "Italy 1901", takes the artist to the French metropolis in the episode "Paris 1912", tells of the now legendary journey of the three artist colleagues Paul Klee, August Macke and Louis Moilliet shortly before the outbreak of the First World War in "Tunisia 1914", while the already successful artist and Bauhaus master seeks relaxation on holiday trips in "Southern France 1927" and then, in "Egypt 1928", fulfils a long-held wish with his second trip to North Africa. 

Narrator: Edwin Thomas
Script: Herbert Schwarze, Bastien Delarocque
Research: Anita Mischler, Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Maria Horst, Martina Witschi
Project Management: Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Maria Horst
Production: Bastien Delarocque, Jörg Schulze
Recording: Richard Evans (Syncbox)
Sound-design and mixing: Lukas Wustmann, Martin Grube
Music: Boys Noize
Translation: Tim Beeby, Sabine Bürger

This podcast was produced by maze pictures swiss GmbH and made possible by Engagement Migros as part of the pioneering digitorials.ch project.
Special thanks to Nadine Bleses, Dr. Carsten Siebert, Philipp Bitter, Heidi Ewald, Georgie Davies, Ulrich Thomsen, Britta Friedrich and Frank Evers.

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Paul Klee’s extraordinary pictorial worlds are the result of a complex artistic development. He received crucial impulses during is travels. These were experiences with a long-lasting impact that Klee documents in diaries, postcards and numerous letters. Five such journeys will provide insights into Klee’s artistic development: from being a student full of doubts to one of the most important modern artists. The podcast "Mapping Klee" follows Klee's tracks through "Italy 1901", takes the artist to the French metropolis in the episode "Paris 1912", tells of the now legendary journey of the three artist colleagues Paul Klee, August Macke and Louis Moilliet shortly before the outbreak of the First World War in "Tunisia 1914", while the already successful artist and Bauhaus master seeks relaxation on holiday trips in "Southern France 1927" and then, in "Egypt 1928", fulfils a long-held wish with his second trip to North Africa. Narrator: Edwin Thomas Script: Herbert Schwarze, Bastien Delarocque Research: Anita Mischler, Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Maria Horst, Martina Witschi Project Management: Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Maria Horst Production: Bastien Delarocque, Jörg Schulze Recording: Richard Evans (Syncbox) Sound-design and mixing: Lukas Wustmann, Martin Grube Music: Boys Noize Translation: Tim Beeby, Sabine Bürger This podcast was produced by maze pictures swiss GmbH and made possible by Engagement Migros as part of the pioneering digitorials.ch project. Special thanks to Nadine Bleses, Dr. Carsten Siebert, Philipp Bitter, Heidi Ewald, Georgie Davies, Ulrich Thomsen, Britta Friedrich and Frank Evers.

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