Tannhäuser
Paul Klee, Swiss, 1879 - 1940
Date:
1924Medium:
Brush, pen and black ink over charcoal on off-white paper, adhered to boardDimensions:
Sheet: 18 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches (47 x 30.2 cm) Mount: 20 3/8 x 13 9/16 inches (51.8 x 34.4 cm)Copyright:
© Artists Rights Society (ARS) New YorkCuratorial Department:
Prints, Drawings, and PhotographsObject Location:
1963-181-158Credit Line:
The Louis E. Stern Collection, 1963
1924Medium:
Brush, pen and black ink over charcoal on off-white paper, adhered to boardDimensions:
Sheet: 18 1/2 x 11 7/8 inches (47 x 30.2 cm) Mount: 20 3/8 x 13 9/16 inches (51.8 x 34.4 cm)Copyright:
© Artists Rights Society (ARS) New YorkCuratorial Department:
Prints, Drawings, and PhotographsObject Location:
Currently not on view
Accession Number:1963-181-158Credit Line:
The Louis E. Stern Collection, 1963
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The figure represented in this drawing is that of Tannhäuser, the protagonist in the opera of the same name by the nineteenth-century German composer Richard Wagner. The scrolls-similar in shape to the musical notation for the treble clef, the f-shaped holes on a violin, and the lyre that adorns Tannhäuser's head-aptly convey the work's musical subject.
