Paul Klee 18 December 1879 – 29 June
1940) was a Swiss-German painter. 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. His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.In
1919, Klee applied for a teaching post at the
Academy of Art in
Stuttgart.Klee has been variously associated with
Expressionism,
Cubism,
Futurism,
Surrealism, and Abstraction, but his pictures are difficult to classify. He generally worked in isolation from his peers, and interpreted new art trends in his own way. He was inventive in his methods and technique. Klee worked in many different media—oil paint, watercolor, ink, pastel, etching, and others. He often combined them into one work. He used canvas, burlap, muslin, linen, gauze, cardboard, metal foils, fabric, wallpaper, and newsprint. Klee employed spray paint, knife application, stamping, glazing, and impasto, and mixed media such as oil with watercolor, watercolor with pen and
India ink, and oil with tempera.He works in the
Bauhaus and in
Düsseldorf.Klee suffered from a wasting disease, scleroderma, toward the end of his life, enduring pain that seems to be reflected in his last works of art. One of his last paintings,
Death and Fire, features a skull in the center with the
German word for death, "Tod", appearing in the face. He died in Muralto,
Locarno, Switzerland, on 29 June 1940 without having obtained
Swiss citizenship, despite his birth in that country. His art work was considered too revolutionary, even degenerate, by the
Swiss authorities, but eventually they accepted his request six days after his death. His legacy comprises about 9,
000 works of art.
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- published: 15 May 2015
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