{"id":20283,"date":"2025-07-01T18:00:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/entdecken\/objekte\/handpuppe-portraet-paul-klees\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T13:25:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T11:25:43","slug":"handpuppet-portrait-of-paul-klee","status":"publish","type":"object","link":"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/discover\/objects\/handpuppet-portrait-of-paul-klee\/","title":{"rendered":"Handpuppet, portrait of Paul Klee"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class='wp-block-ho-pattern header-text toggle-optional-copy' data-pattern='ho\/header-objekt'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='color-bg-highlight color-fg-highlight header-space header-height-read-only'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-5 cf-side-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 text-align-center col-md-12 padding-top-5 padding-bottom-5'>\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-2'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot \">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bauhaus.de\/en\/kuenstler_taxonomy\/marianne-ahlfeld-heymann-en\/\" class=\"artist-tag ho-sd-h4\"><span>Marianne Ahlfeld-Heymann<\/span><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-ho-div\">\n<h1 class='ho-sd-h4' style=\"white-space: normal;\">Handpuppet, portrait of Paul Klee<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 margin-top-5'>\n\n<div  class='header-image-wrapper'><figure itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" class=\"lazy-media-inline \" role=\"group\" aria-describedby=\"media_vwnktv\">\n<script type=\"application\/json\">{\n\"id\" : 9261,\n\"sizes\" : {\"medium\":{\"file\":\"10317_Marianne-Ahlfeld-Heymann_Handpuppe-Portraet-Paul-Klees_1925_c_BHA-212x300.jpg\",\"width\":212,\"height\":300,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":5232},\"large\":{\"file\":\"10317_Marianne-Ahlfeld-Heymann_Handpuppe-Portraet-Paul-Klees_1925_c_BHA-724x1024.jpg\",\"width\":724,\"height\":1024,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":34201},\"medium_large\":{\"file\":\"10317_Marianne-Ahlfeld-Heymann_Handpuppe-Portraet-Paul-Klees_1925_c_BHA-768x1086.jpg\",\"width\":768,\"height\":1086,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":37646},\"1536x1536\":{\"file\":\"10317_Marianne-Ahlfeld-Heymann_Handpuppe-Portraet-Paul-Klees_1925_c_BHA-1086x1536.jpg\",\"width\":1086,\"height\":1536,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":69413},\"2048x2048\":{\"file\":\"10317_Marianne-Ahlfeld-Heymann_Handpuppe-Portraet-Paul-Klees_1925_c_BHA-1449x2048.jpg\",\"width\":1449,\"height\":2048,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":118968},\"small\":{\"file\":\"10317_Marianne-Ahlfeld-Heymann_Handpuppe-Portraet-Paul-Klees_1925_c_BHA-311x440.jpg\",\"width\":311,\"height\":440,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":8859},\"semi\":{\"file\":\"10317_Marianne-Ahlfeld-Heymann_Handpuppe-Portraet-Paul-Klees_1925_c_BHA-410x580.jpg\",\"width\":410,\"height\":580,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":13571},\"mobile\":{\"file\":\"10317_Marianne-Ahlfeld-Heymann_Handpuppe-Portraet-Paul-Klees_1925_c_BHA-509x720.jpg\",\"width\":509,\"height\":720,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":19050},\"hd\":{\"file\":\"10317_Marianne-Ahlfeld-Heymann_Handpuppe-Portraet-Paul-Klees_1925_c_BHA-905x1280.jpg\",\"width\":905,\"height\":1280,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":50048},\"full\":{\"file\":\"10317_Marianne-Ahlfeld-Heymann_Handpuppe-Portraet-Paul-Klees_1925_c_BHA-1358x1920.jpg\",\"width\":1358,\"height\":1920,\"mime-type\":\"image\\\/jpeg\",\"filesize\":105224},\"original\":{\"file\":\"10317_Marianne-Ahlfeld-Heymann_Handpuppe-Portraet-Paul-Klees_1925_c_BHA.jpg\",\"width\":2122,\"height\":3000}},\n\"alt\" : \"\",\n\"path\" : \"\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/07\\\/\",\n\"video\" : null,\n\"autoplay\" : null,\n\"youtube\" : null,\n\"youtubelabel\" : \"play\",\n\"brightness\" : 100,\n\"crop\" : null,\n\"background\" : false,\n\"scale\" : 1,\n\"zoom\" : false,\n\"annotations\" : null}<\/script>\n<div class=\"height-container \" style=\"padding-bottom:141.37606032045%; 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Das Gesicht hat einen ernsten Ausdruck. Die H\u00e4nde sind aus hautfarbenem Filz gen\u00e4ht. Die Puppe tr\u00e4gt ein schwarzes Halstuch und einen langen, wei\u00dfen Malerkittel.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/content-reveal>\n\n\t\t<div class=\"content-reveal-controls\" @click=\"toggle\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"reveal-controls-open\">\n\t\t\t\t<button class=\"ho-button is-primary has-icon-left\">\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-icon icon-plus\"><\/span>\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-label\">Extended image description<\/span>\n<\/button>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"reveal-controls-close\">\n\t\t\t\t<!--button type=\"button\" class=\"ho-button is-text\">\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-label\">Weniger lesen<\/span>\n<\/button-->\n<button class=\"ho-button is-primary has-icon-left\">\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-icon icon-minus\"><\/span>\n\t<span class=\"ho-button-label\">Extended image description<\/span>\n<\/button>\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/reveal>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div  class='margin-bottom-7'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-4 col-md-offset-1'>\n\n<div  class='container-fluid cf-gutter-1 cf-side-1 padding-top-2 mobile-padding-bottom-5'>\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12'>\n\n<div  class='flex-align-center-center mobile-flex-align-center-center'><div class=\"wp-block-ho-slot ho-sd-metadata\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='row'>\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 text-align-center mobile-text-align-center'>\t<p class='ho-sd-metadata'>Date:<br>1925<br><br>Inventory number:<br>10317<br><br>Object type:<br>Toys<br><br>Technique \/ Material:<br>Wood, wool, linen, felt<br><br>Dimensions:<br>53 x 18,5 x 14 cm<br><br>Provenance:<br>Donation by Marianne Ahlfeld-Heymann, 1989<br><br><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<div  class='col col-xs-12 col-md-6 col-md-offset-1 color-fg-highlight-2'>\t<p class='ho-sd-body'>This small hand puppet shows Paul Klee in a white painter\u2019s smock and was carved by Marianne Ahlfeld-Heymann as a memento of her time at the Bauhaus in Weimar. Klee had made a strong impression on the young woman as a teacher and as a person. As a friend of his son Felix, she was a frequent visitor to Klee\u2019s home, where she had also seen the hand puppets that Paul Klee had made for Felix. After training in the wood sculpture workshop, Marianne Ahlfeld-Heymann worked as a puppet and mask carver, wood sculptor and stage designer. The little hand puppet of Paul Klee also went with her in 1933, when she fled to France, where the Jewish artist lived in hiding for a long time before moving to Israel with her family in 1949.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This small hand puppet shows Paul Klee in a white painter\u2019s smock and was carved by Marianne Ahlfeld-Heymann as a memento of her time at the Bauhaus in Weimar. Klee had made a strong impression on the young woman as a teacher and as a person. 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