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Birth Year : 1879
Death Year : 1940
Country : Switzerland
Paul Klee was born near Berne, Switzerland. His Swiss
mother was an amateur painter and his Bavarian father
was a professor of music. As a child, Klee showed both
musical and artistic talent, but finally decided to
become an artist and went to Munich to study at the Fine
Arts Academy. Klee's first exhibition held in Berne, in
1910, showed the influence of Cezanne, Matisse, and Van
Gogh. In 1912, Klee exhibited with the Blaue Reiter, but
by the following year in a series of essays that
appeared in Zurich, he had begun to state his own
personal and spiritual approach to art. Until 1914, Klee
had worked only in black and white or in watercolors,
but during that year, on a trip to Tunisia with Macke,
Klee began to see the potential of his use of color.
Influenced by Cubism and interested in both children's
and primitive art, he created small, jewel-like
paintings in a personal language. His basic themes are
nature and the man-made world of buildings and machines,
and his works, although simple in appearance, are
complicated in their inner meaning.
Klee's subtly differentiated moods range from laughter
to tears. His witty titles are often as important as the
paintings themselves, which combine an economy and
precision of technique with the markings of a seemingly
limitless imagination. Klee taught at the Bauhaus from
1921 to 1931 and then became professor of Fine Arts in
Düsseldorf. In 1933, nine of his works were included in
the degenerate art exhibition, the Nazis invaded his
studio, and he was suspended from his post. Luckily,
Klee was able to take his paintings, drawings, and
writings with him when he sought refuge in his native
Berne, where he continued to work until his death in
1940
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