Paul Klee

(1879-1940)

Swiss painter of German nationality

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Paul Klee (18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored color theory, writing about it extensively; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are held to be as important for modern art as Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting for the Renaissance. He and his colleague, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture in Germany. His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.

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Born	Paul Klee 18 December 1879 Münchenbuchsee, Bern, Switzerland
Died	29 June 1940 (aged 60) Muralto, Ticino, Switzerland
Zodiac	Sagittarius
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Lily Stumpf 1876-1946 · German pianist · m. 1906 info edit

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Felix Paul info 1st child with Lily Stumpf Male b. 30 Nov 1907 · Age: 117 · 1907- · Celebrity Baby

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Max Ernst · Friend · 1891-1976 · German artist edit info

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