Art, literature & history
The Tight Rope Walker (Seiltänzer)
1923
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- lithograph in black and pink
- Dimensions
- image: 43.4 x 26.8 cm (17 1/16 x 10 9/16 in.) sheet: 52.1 x 38.1 cm (20 1/2 x 15 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.5184
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Paul Klee. The Tight Rope Walker (Seiltänzer). Image credit: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Proportional resize and JPEG compression; full source frame retained.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Tight Rope Walker (Seiltänzer) — Paul Klee. 1923.
Medium: lithograph in black and pink.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 43.4 x 26.8 cm (17 1/16 x 10 9/16 in.) sheet: 52.1 x 38.1 cm (20 1/2 x 15 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.5184. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.