| Heroic Roses | |
| Image Upright: | 1.1 |
| Artist: | Paul Klee |
| Year: | 1938 |
| Medium: | oil on stained canvas |
| Height Metric: | 68 |
| Width Metric: | 52 |
| Museum: | Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen |
Heroic Roses, known in German as Heroische Rosen, is an oil on stained canvas expressionist painting by Swiss-German painter Paul Klee, from 1938. It is held in the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, in Düsseldorf.
Heroic Roses was one of Klee's paintings in the final period before his death on June 29, 1940. In 1935 Klee started to suffer from scleroderma, which took a toll on his health.[1] Paintings during this period tended to be simpler and representative of the suffering he was going through.[2]
The painting also represents hieroglyphics, an interest of Klee's during this time,[3] which can also be seen in many of his late 1930s and early 1940s paintings, such as Insula dulcamara (1938) and Death and Fire (1940).