For artists to give each other gifts or exchange their pictures has always been a sign of mutual appreciation. Paul Klee exchanged many works during the course of his friendship with artists like Alfred Kubin, Wassily Kandinsky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Franz Marc, Lyonel Feininger, Emil Nolde, and many others. Even more astonishing than the quantity is the regularity of this mutual gift-giving and the variety and intensity of the dialogue which went on in private. This practice of exchanging gifts was full of symbolic allusions and hidden commentary concerning Klee's and his friends? artistic concepts, as this lecture will show. At least during some crucial phases in his career, artist friends seem to have been, for Klee, the ideal public for his art.
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