Artnet

In the Documentary ‘Angel Applicant,’ a Filmmaker Explores Paul Klee’s Late Work Through the Lens of Their Shared Illness

In the new documentary Angel Applicant, narrator-director Kenneth August Meyer presents an interpretation of painter Paul Klee’s work with an insight that few others would be able to offer, by viewing ...
Filmmaker

“Klee Wanted to Destroy the Convention of Angels in Their Historic Tradition”: Ken August Meyer on His SXSW Doc about Art and Illness, Angel Applicant

There’s the concept of art as therapy, and then there’s the concept of a specific artist as a therapist, which is how debuting filmmaker Ken August Meyer introduces the Swiss-German painter Paul Klee ...
The Conversation

My pilgrimage to the site of Paul Klee’s Hammamet with Its Mosque

Roger Benjamin receives funding from the Australian Research Council. In this new series, our writers introduce us to a favourite painting. For almost as long as I can remember I have loved the ...
Daily Camera

BIFF film review: In ‘Angel Applicant,’ late-painter Paul Klee earns his wings as unlikely therapist

These are questions Ken August Meyer, a Portland, Ore.-based art director found himself confronting after receiving the diagnosis of systemic scleroderma, an autoimmune disorder affecting the skin and ...
Time

Paul Klee’s Universe Comes to Berlin

Paul Klee’s childlike drawings and abstract paintings of colorful dots and shapes made him, without doubt, one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Underneath the vibrant, ...