Paul Klee - Angelus Novus

Paul Klee

Angelus Novus

1920

    "This drawing intrigued the German Jewish philosopher and literary critic Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), who purchased it in 1921. After World War II Benjamin’s lifelong friend, Gershom Scholem (1897-1982), the distinguished scholar of Jewish mysticism, inherited the drawing. According to Scholem, Benjamin felt a mystical identification with the Angelus Novus and incorporated it in his theory of the “angel of history,” a melancholy view of historical process as an unceasing cycle of despair." Daqui