Paul Klee 1879-1940
Paul Klee was born in Switzerland in 1879 to a German father who was a singing teacher and to a French Swiss mother who was a musician. Klee's early artistic training was in piano and violin, but in 1898 he chose to pursue painting as his career.
After early art training in Munich, Klee went to Italy between 1901 and 1902. On his return to Switzerland began his work in etchi
...see more »ngs. His early influences were Goya and Cezanne and a trip to Italy in 1901 led to a great admiration of Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel. From 1906 to 1933, Klee taught and lived in Germany, including work as an instructor at the Bauhaus and the Dusseldorf Academy. He was associated with the Blau Reiter group of artists known as "The Blue Four".
After he left Germany in 1933, the Nazis considered Klee's art degenerate and confiscated over 100 works of art.
Klee adapted his ideas to many different styles and genres, with prolific results in many mediums. He produced over 9000 works of art during his lifetime, with over 2600 pieces at the Klee Foundation in Berne, Switzerland. He was recognized as a famous artist from the 1920s on and used pencil, clack and white etchings, mosaics, dream imagery, watercolors, oils, and many other media to develop his ideas. His styles varied so greatly that he is mentioned in many different movements, from abstract to impressionist. Klee died in 1940.
Partial list of art works
1909 Still Life With Four Apples (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
1914 With the Red X (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
1915 Laughing Gothic (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
1916 Demon Above the Ships (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
1918 Zoological Gardens (Klee Foundation, Berne)
1919 Villa R (Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland)
1920 Christian Sectarian (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
1921 The Angler (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
1921 Graduated Shades of Red-Green (Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut)
1922 A Young Lady's Adventure (Tate, London)
1922 Dance, Monster to My Soft Song! (Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York City)
1922 Twittering Machine (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
1925 Fish Magic (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
1926 Around the Fish (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
1927 Pastoral (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
1928 Cat and Bird (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
1929 Fire at Evening (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
1932 Arab Song (Phillips Collection, Washington, DC)
1934 Errand Boy (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
1936 Child Consecrated to Suffering (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York)
1937 Revolutions of the Viaducts (Hamburg)
1938 Heroic Strokes of the Bow (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)
1939 Rich Harbour (Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland)
1939 Intoxication (Museum of Modern Art, New York City)« see less
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