Paul Klee and experimental embryology

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Paul Klee(1879-1940) saw his making process of work as morphological genesis (Werden) of form. This research is an attempt to show that Klee's poietics is rooted in the embryological development owing to entelechy which the neo-vitalist Hans Driesch, working in Naples at the Marine Biological Station at the turn of the century, found from his experiments on the sea urchin embryo.On the other hand, a Klee painting does present not only a visual picturesque mimesis, but also a haptic plastic simulacrum. Ernst Weber and German physicians introduced new methods of measuring sensitivity, establishing the experimental psychology. In Weber's book on touch Der Tastsinn(1846) temperature and kinaesthetic, i.e. haptic sensitivity were examined and offered a paradigm of multiple modalities of sensitivity. Paul Klee demonstrates that art can function as a haptic modality.