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Paul Klee |
December 18, 1879 - June 29, 1940
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Paul Klee was a Switzerland-born painter.
Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee, near Bern, Switzerland, into a musical family. In his early years, he wanted to be a musician, but decided on the visual arts in his teen years. He studied art in Munich with Heinrich Knirr and Franz von Stuck. After travelling to Italy and then back to Bern, he settled in Munich, where he met Wassily Kandinsky, Hans Marc and other avant-garde figures, and became associated with the Blaue Reiter.
In 1914, he visited Tunisia and was impressed by the quality of the light there, writing "Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it, I know that it has hold of me forever ... Color and I are one. I am a painter."
Klee worked in oil paint, watercolours, ink and other media, often combining them in one work. He has been variously associated with expressionism, cubism and surrealism but his pictures are difficult to classify. They often have a fragile child-like quality to them, and are usually on a small scale. They frequently allude to poetry, music and dreams and sometimes include words or musical notation. The later works are distinguished by spidery hieroglyph-like symbols. His better known works include Southern (Tunisian) Gardens (1919), Ad Parnassum (1932) and Embrace (1939).
Following World War I, Klee taught at the Bauhaus, and from 1931 at the Düsseldorf Academy, before being denounced by the Nazi Party for producing "degenerate art".
Composer Gunther Schuller also immortalized seven works of Klee's in his Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee. The studies are based on a range of works, including Alter Klang [Antique Harmonies], Abstraktes Terzett [Abstract Trio], Little Blue Devil, Twittering Machine, Arab Village, Ein unheimlicher Moment [An Eerie Moment], and Pastorale.
In 1933, Paul Klee returned to Switzerland where he died in Bern.
Taking that line for a walk.
The King of doodles who's large canvases cam appear to be little more than doodles in oil paint. As a teacher at the German Bauhaus he developed his own complex theories of art, where a painting is based as much on the idea held in the artist's mind as what he can see in front of him.
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