Paul Klee | |
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 Klee in 1926 | |
| Born | December 18, 1879 Münchenbuchsee, Bern, Switzerland |
| Died | 29 June 1940 (aged 60) Muralto, Ticino, Switzerland |
| Nationality | German |
| Education | Academy of Fine Arts, Munich |
| Known for | Painting, drawing, watercolor, printmaking |
| Notable work | More than 10,000 paintings, drawings, and etchings, including Angelus Novus (1920), Senecio and Twittering Machine (1922), Fish Magic (1925), Viaducts Break Ranks (1937). |
| Movement | Expressionism, Bauhaus, Surrealism |
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Paul Klee (German: [paʊ̯l ˈkleː]; 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 was for the Renaissance.[1][2][3] 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.
- ^ Disegno e progettazione By Marcello Petrignani p. 17
- ^ Guilo Carlo Argan "Preface", Paul Klee, The Thinking Eye, (ed. Jürg Spiller), Lund Humphries, London, 1961, p. 13.
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