| Paul Klee at work in Weimar, 1924. Photograph: Felix Klee/Klee Nachlassverwaltung, Bern |
‘I have synaesthesia, so I hear music as colour. And it’s as if Klee senses what colour feels like’
My hero / Paul Klee by Philip Hensher
Drawings by Cézanne and Klee among works gifted to Courtauld Gallery
I
first came across Paul Klee while I was studying art at school in London. I was 15 and read a book featuring lots of painters from the early 20th century, Kandinsky and Franz Marc among them. It was Klee I kept coming back to, though. His paintings struck me as almost childlike, like someone discovering their surroundings for the first time. Perhaps that was the way I was feeling, too.