Kairouan – or how Paul Klee became a Painter

For Paul Klee, the impressions he gathered on his trip to Tunisia in 1914, especially in the city of Kairouan, were fundamental:

‘I and colour are one. I am a painter.’ A few years later, in 1921, Wilhelm Hausenstein placed his friend Paul Klee at the centre of his book Kairouan, thus becoming one of the first to recognise the artist's genius.

This English edition, which opens with a foreword by Kenneth Croose Parry, Wilhelm Hausenstein's son-in-law, combines Hausenstein's original text with important works by Klee. The volume provides an incomparable insight into the life of Paul Klee as a painter in the context of European art and society.