1921
The Saint of the Inner Light
Paul KleeSwiss, 1879 - 1940
Die Heilige vom inneren Licht gives a sense of Klee's use of hue and form during this stage of his career. The flattened, abstract treatment of the figure is echoed in the artist’s 1922 Der wilde Mann (now in the collection of the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich), which takes Narasimha, the man-lion avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu, as its subject. Klee found meaning in the ancient literature of India, and he is known to have read the Mahabharata, one of the great sacred Hindu texts that tells the story of Narasimha.
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