Paul Klee

Paul Klee (born on the 18th December, 1879, - died on the 29th June, 1940) was a Swiss painter with German citizenship. Paul Klee was in his work under the influence of many different art styles, including expressionism, cubism and surrealism. He and his friend, the Russian painter Vassily Kandinsky, were also famous that they informed in Bauhaus, the school for art and architecture.

Lives and work

Paul Klee was born in Munich book lake (close to Bern) in Switzerland in a musician's family - his father, Hans Klee, was a German music teacher in the Hofwil teacher seminar close to Bern. Paul Klee started quite young with painting and music. With seven he started to play violin and with eight he received from his grandmother a box with chalk and was encouraged by her to sign often with it.

Paul Klee could have done as a musician as well as as a pedagogic artist his way as an adult. During his early years Paul Klee Musiker wanted to become, but, nevertheless, later he decided on the fine arts. Paul Klee studied art in the " academy of the fine arts " in Munich, together with Heinrich Knirr and Franz von Durchstochen. After a trip to Italy, he prepared in Munich where he met Vassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc and other avant-gardists and joined to the "Blue Rider". Here Paul Klee also met the Bavarian pianist lily butt, they married and had called a son Felix Paul.

In 1914 Paul Klee with August Macke and Louis Moillie Tunesien visited and was impressed by the quality of the light there, he wrote, " the colour has me. I do not need to grasp at her. She has me for good, I know this. This is of the happy hour a sense: one are I and the colour. I am a painter. " Paul Klee also visited Italy (1901) and Egypt (1928), both influenced his art exceptionally. Clover was one of the "blue four", with Kandinsky, Feininger and from Jawlensky. In 1924 they exhibited together in the USA. Clover influenced the work of other known artists that of the 20-th century, including the Belgian artist Rene Carcan.

Paul Klee worked with many different painting media, oil paint, watercolors, ink and more. Often he combined them them in his works. He is multiple with the expressionism, cubism and surrealism associated become, but his pictures are difficult to class. They often have a breakable childish quality, often lead poetry, music and dreams and sometimes enclose words or musical notes. The later works are by spin, hieroglyphics-like symbols remarkably which take he as a " line for a walk " described.

After the First World War in which Paul Klee painted camouflage on airplanes for the German imperial army clover informed first academy in Bauhaus and from 1931 in Dusseldorf. In 1933 his art is qualified by the Nazis as an " entartete Kunst " and to finish clover constrainedly his teaching. The "degenerate art" - exhibit catalogues had called the work of clover even " the work of an ill mind ".

Composer Gunther Schuller made seven works of Paul Klees in his " seven studies after subjects of Paul Klee " immortal. The studies are based on a row of works, " old sound ", " abstract trio ", " of small blue devils ", " twittering machine ", " Arabian village ", " an uncanny moment " and "pastoral".

Another picture of Paul Klees, "Angelus Novus", was the object of an interpreting text by the German philosopher and literary critic Walter Benjamin: In it Benjamin suggests that the angel drawn in the picture should illustrate the progress in the history. In 1933 Paul Klee returned in Switzerland; in 1935 he started to note the symptoms of an illness which was diagnosed after his death as a Sclerodermy. The progress of his fatal illness can be ascertained in the works which he created during his last years.

Paul Klee died in 1940 in Muralto, Switzerland without having received the Swiss citizenship. The Swiss authorities accepted Paul Kle's request, in the end, six days after his death. When Paul Klee with sixty died, he left at least 8926 pieces of art. The inscription on his gravestone is " On this side I am not tangible at all, because I live grad so well with the dead people like with the unborn. To the a little closer heart of the creation than commonly and still long not near enough. " Today a picture of Paul Klee can achieve several millions.

Paul Klee dedicated museum was built by the Italian architect Renzo Piano in Bern. The "centre Paul Klee" was opened in June, 2005 and takes up a collection by chance 4000 works of Paul Klees. Another essential collection of the works of clover is in the possession of the chemist and dramatists Carl Djerassi and is exhibited in San Francisco museum of the modern art.