Paul Klee ( German: [paʊ̯l ˈkleː]; 18 December 1879 - 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Paul Klee (1879-1940) has been called many things: a father of abstract art, a Bauhaus master, the progenitor of Surrealism, and—by many an art historian and fan (members of his cult following affectionately refer to each other as "Klee-mates")—a very hard man to pin down.
Paul Klee Bild "Häuser am Meer" (1914), gerahmt Barlach
19 East 66th Street Manhattan Through next Friday These two delightful exhibitions, which coincide largely by chance, summarize the life and art of the great Swiss-German Modernist Paul Klee. Revolving House, 1921 by Paul Klee The Thyssen-Bornemisza Revolving House was painted during Klee's first months at the Bauhaus, where he taught from 1921 to 1931. Title: Three Houses Artist: Paul Klee (German (born Switzerland), Münchenbuchsee 1879-1940 Muralto-Locarno) Date: 1922 Medium: Watercolor on paper, bordered with watercolor, mounted on cardboard Dimensions: 9 5/8 × 13 1/2 in. (24.4 × 34.3 cm) Classification: Drawings Credit Line: The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984 Accession Number: 1984.315.30 Paul Klee (born December 18, 1879, Münchenbuchsee, near Bern, Switzerland—died June 29, 1940, Muralto, near Locarno) Swiss-German painter and draftsman who was one of the foremost artists of the 20th century. Early life and education Klee's mother, née Ida Maria Frick of Basel, and his German-born father, Hans Klee, were both trained as musicians.
Paul Klee HausInneres 1919 Poster Kunstdruck bei Germanposters.de
The Swiss-born artist Paul Klee's notebooks have been made freely available online by the Zentrum Paul Klee. Paul Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, as the second child of German music teacher Hans Wilhelm Klee (1849-1940) and Swiss singer Ida Marie Klee, née Frick (1855-1921). His sister Mathilde (died 6 December 1953) was born on 28 January 1876 in Walzenhausen. Their father came from Tann and studied at the Stuttgart Conservatory. The exhibition has now been extended to include the Zentrum Paul Klee. In 2019 we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Bauhaus. Established in Weimar in 1919, moved to Dessau in 1925 and closed in Berlin in 1933 under pressure from the National Socialists, the Bauhaus only existed for 14 years. Paul Klee was a Swiss painter and important figure in the development of early 20th-century avant-garde art.Klee's breadth of subject matter ranged from the child-like portrait Senecio (1922), to the geometric abstraction of Castle and Sun (1928). He often painted architecture as well as the natural world, using his signature expressionist style to represent space.
Paul Klee Rotes Haus (Red House) 1929 Oil on canvas mou… Flickr
From 1921, German-Swiss painter and graphic artist Paul Klee (1879-1940) taught at the Bauhaus—the school of art, architecture, and design founded by Walter Gropius in 1919. In 1931, shortly before the Bauhaus closed under Nazi pressure, Klee moved to Düsseldorf to teach at the Düsseldorf Academy. The Nazis deemed his art "degenerate. Klee lived and worked in tumultuous times, including two World Wars. Today, his name is synonymous with other avant-garde contemporaries, including Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, and Klee's Bauhaus colleague, Wassily Kandinsky. The Berggruen collection is largely comprised of small-scale works on paper, which will be grouped chronologically.
San Francisco Get notifications for similar works Want to sell a work by this artist? Sell with Artsy Artist Series Related artists Follow Follow Follow From San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) , Paul Klee, Rotes Haus (Red House) (1929), Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard, 10 × 10 7/8 in In 1919, German architect Walter Gropius established Staatliches Bauhaus, a school dedicated to uniting all branches of the arts under one roof.The school acted as a hub for Europe's most experimental creatives, with well-known artists like Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee offering their expertise as instructors.
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Artist: Paul Klee (German (born Switzerland), Münchenbuchsee 1879-1940 Muralto-Locarno) Date: 1917. Medium: Gouache on paper mounted on cardboard. Dimensions: 10 1/4 × 7 7/8 in. (26 × 20 cm) Classification: Drawings. Credit Line: The Berggruen Klee Collection, 1984. Accession Number: 1984.315.10. Paul Klee was born in Switzerland on December 18, 1879. Klee's father was a teacher at the Bern State Seminary and Klee followed in his father's footsteps, becoming a prestigious violin player. At age 11, he received an invitation to play with the Bern Music Association, but despite his natural talent and parent's wishes for him to pursue a musical career, Klee abandoned music for art in.
