Paul Klee

Paul Klee

Swiss-German - 1879

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Biography

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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Villas for Marionettes (Villen für Marionetten)
Paul Klee
Villas for Marionettes (Villen für Marionetten), 1920 Toledo Museum of Art
Collection of Figurines
Paul Klee
Collection of Figurines, 1920 The Metropolitan Museum of Art MET
Villas for Marionettes (Villen für Marionetten)
Paul Klee
Villas for Marionettes (Villen für Marionetten), 1920
Toledo Museum of Art
Collection of Figurines
Paul Klee
Collection of Figurines, 1920
The Metropolitan Museum of Art MET
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