Paul Klee
1879-1940
One of the Greatest Painters Of All Time
Swiss Expressionist Painter
Stylistically influenced by the following painters and art movements; Surrealism, Cubism, Francisco Goya, James Ensor, Paul Cézanne and, especially, Wassily Kandinsky
The artist's art was declared to be Entartete Kunst by the Nazis
Cause of Death - scleroderma, a gruesome disease that slowly mummifies its victims. In 1935 Klee was diagnosed with scleroderma, a chronic connective tissue disease generally classified as a autoimmune rheumatic disease. Klee's production slowed noticeably as scleroderma began to take it's frightening hold. His art-work began to transform from light and joyful to murky and echoing, as if questioning the meaning of his own life
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Paul Klee Quotations
The more horrifying
this world becomes, the more
art becomes abstract. --
Paul Klee
A line is a dot that goes for a walk. - Paul Klee
Beauty is as relative as
light and dark. Thus, there
exists no beautiful woman,
none at all, because you are
never certain that a still
far more beautiful woman
will not appear and
completely shame the
supposed beauty of the
first. -- Paul Klee
Color
possesses me. I don't have
to pursue it. It will
possess me always, I know
it. That is the meaning of
this happy hour: Color and I
are one. I am a painter. --
Paul Klee
Art does not reproduce the
visible; rather, it makes
visible. -- Paul Klee
A single day is enough to
make us a little larger. --
Paul Klee
Everything vanishes around
me, and works are born as if
out of the void. Ripe,
graphic fruits fall off. My
hand has become the obedient
instrument of a remote will.
-- Paul Klee Quote
Paul Klee Interesting Facts
Paul Klee was born
in the quaint Swiss village
Münchenbuchsee, near Bern,
on December 18, 1879
Klee was born into a fun
loving musical family and
was a celebrated violinist
in his own right.
Klee married the beautiful
young pianist Lili Stumpf .
After World War I, a
demoralized and shell
shocked Klee taught at the
Bauhaus school and wrote the
influential Pedagogical
Sketchbook in 1925.
Klee was forced to run for
his life when the Nazi Party
gained power in Germany.
Klee returned to his native
Switzerland.
Along with every great
modern artist in Germany,
Klee' s striking paintings
were confiscated by the
Nazis and declared
degenerate.
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