Paul Klee Fine Art Prints - Custom-made (Image in light green)

Paul Klee born 18.12.1879 Münchenbuchsee near Bern died 29.6.1940 Muralto-Locarno Switzerland

Paul Klee, German painter and graphic artist and most important artist next to Kandinsky of the avant-garde - from Expressionism to Abstract Art. Klee fluctuated for a long time between musical or painterly education, However, he decided to study painting, initially at a private Art school, later at the Munich Academy. He left this already after a year to continue his self-taught education. On trips to Paris, beginning in 1905, he got in contact with Picasso, Appolinaire and Delaunay. In the Munich galleries he encountered the art of van Gogh, Paul Cezanne and Matisse.
In 1911 Klee became acquaintanted with the Munich avant-garde around Kandinsky, with whom he had a lifelong friendship. In 1914 Klee travelled to Tunis together with Macke and Moilliet. There his color perception got even more pronounced.

From 1920-1931 Klee taught at the Bauhaus "Inhaltliche Formlehre", first in Weimar, later in Dessau. From a later professorship at the Akademie Düsseldorf he was dismissed in 1933 after the seizure of power by the National Socialists and from then on he lived in Bern.
Klee's art was initially characterized by a purely graphic style with grotesque scenes, reminiscent of Kubin and Ensor. During the Trip to Tunis, the color became more important for his later work. Through intensive observation of nature, Klee signs and shapes as symbolic language. His autonomous image construction (depth space, light, color, movement and temporal) was a synthesis of experienced natural phenomena and philosophical view of the world.

Text © Jürgen Banse, 2014