What is Paul Klee’s Pedagogical Sketchbook about?

Paul Klee’s Pädagogisches Skizzenbuch (1925; Pedagogical Sketchbook) is a foundational text in which the artist expounded upon the methods he developed while teaching at the Bauhaus school of design.1

The book serves as a distillation of the lectures Klee delivered to students in the school's basic design program. Within these pages, Klee demonstrated how the formal elements of art—specifically simple linear constructions and geometric motifs—could be utilized to build complex, symbolic compositions. By documenting these theories, the Pedagogical Sketchbook provides insight into Klee's effort to rationalize his own artistic practice and teach a systematic methodology of art during his tenure at the Bauhaus.1