Kairuan: Junge Kunst 10

Kairouan.

The impressions gathered in 1914 on a visit to Tunis , and to the city of Kairouan in particular, were of profound significance to Paul Klee: “The paint and I are one. I am a painter.” A few years later, in 1921, Wilhelm Hausenstein positioned his friend Paul Klee at the center of the book Kairuan, in which he explored not only the biography and artistic development of the painter, but also the multifaceted European cultural and arts scene of the time. This precious, richly illustrated book rarity is now available in a new edition, supplemented by the literary foreword “Malermarchen” (Painter’s Fairytale) by the author Peter Hartling and a knowledgeable commentary by Michael Haerdter.