Famous German painters

Paul Klee 12/18/1879 into Münchenbuchsee/ Scheiz 06/29/1940 into Muralto/ Locarne

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Paul Klee was a German-Swiss painter. Paul Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee near Bern in 1879, the son of the music teacher Hans Klee-Frick and the singer Ida Klee-Frick. After graduating from high school in Bern, he moved to Munich in 1898. After a long period of hesitation between music, literature and painting, Paul Klee decided in favor of painting in 1899 and first studied graphics at a private school in Munich with Heinrich Knirr (1862-1944).

Two years later he studied at the Munich Academy in the painting class of Franz von Stuck. His first study trips took the painter to Rome in 1901/02 and to Paris in 1905. In 1908 Paul Klee made the acquaintance of Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc and Hans Arp at the exhibitions of the Munich and Berlin Secession, which had an impact on his artistic work.

In 1912, by participating in the second Blaue Reiter exhibition, he met other outstanding contemporary artists and writers. These were Alexej von Jawlenksy, Rainer Maria Rilke and Herwart Walden. A year later, Klee showed his works at the First German Autumn Salon, during which the artist`s first watercolors were created. From 1914 he dedicated himself to this technique.

In 1921 Paul Klee was appointed by Walter Gropius as master bookbinding workshop at the State Bauhaus in Weimar. Klee ran his own, mostly free painting classes there. The starting point for Klee`s system is the theory of the elementary means of painting, such as line, surface and color in the pictorial space. In the period that followed, Paul Klee increasingly exhibited his works.

The theory of elementary pictorial means such as line, surface and color in the pictorial space forms the starting point of Klee`s system. In the period that followed, Paul Klee increasingly exhibited his works at home and abroad. In 1926 he founded the "Blue Four" together with Kandinstk, Lyonel, Feininger and Jawlensky. At this time Paul Klee mainly paints constructive and absolute pictures.

In 1930 Klee was given a professorship at the Düsseldorf Academy, after which he terminated the contract with the Bauhaus. Three years later, Klee is expelled under pressure from the National Socialists dismissed from his teaching. Paul Klee moves to Bern. The National Socialists remove his works from German museums. Paul Klee dies on April 29.June at the age of 60 in Muralto (Ticino), after the Kunsthaus Zurich dedicated a solo exhibition to him.

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