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Paul Klee

Paul Klee

Self-Portrait (detail) - Paul Klee

Born: 18 December 1879; Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland

Died: 29 June 1940; Muralto, Locarno, Switzerland

Periods: Early Works, Bauhaus, Late Works

Field: painting

Nationality: German, Swiss

Art Movement: Expressionism, Surrealism

School or Group: Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), Bauhaus, Degenerate art

Paul Klee’s was a Swiss born painter, with a unique style that was influenced by expressionism, cubism, surrealism, and orientalism. His written collections of lectures, Writings on Form and Design Theory are considered as important to modern art as Leonardo da Vinci’s written works were to the Renaissance. As a child, Klee was mainly oriented as a musician, having played the violin since he was eight, but in his teen years, he found that art allowed him freedom to explore his style and express his radical ideas. Although Klee is now considered a master of color theory, he spent a long time in his search for his sense of color. At first, Klee drew in black and white, saying he would never be a painter. But as an adult, after a visit to Tunisia, in which he was impressed by the quality of light, he had found his sense of color and began experimenting with his newfound decision to be a painter.

Klee spent much of his adult life teaching at various universities and art schools, including the German Bauhaus School of Art and Düsseldorf Academy. During his tenure at Düsseldorf, he was singled out as a Jew by the Nazi party. The Gestapo searched his home and he was fired from his job. Some of his later works were also seized by the Nazis.

Wikipedia article

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Klee

Featured Artworks

Houses near the Gravel Pit, 1913
Hammamet with mosque, 1914
In the Style of Kairouan, 1914
Death for the Idea, 1915
Flower myth, 1918
Miraculous Landing, 1920
Separation in the Evening, 1922
Black Knight, 1927
Highway and byways, 1929
Ad Parnassum, 1932
Struck from the List, 1933
Hoffmanneske scene, 1940

Artworks by Style

Fauvism

Hammamet with mosque, 1914

Expressionism

Rising Sun, 1907
The signatories to the window (The artist at the window), 1909
Flower stand with watering can and bucket, 1910
Houses near the Gravel Pit, 1913
Remembrance of a Garden, 1914
Windows and palm trees, 1914
In the Style of Kairouan, 1914
Death for the Idea, 1915
Enlightenment of two Sectie, 1918
Flower myth, 1918
Two country houses, 1918
Cosmic Composition, 1919

Cubism

View Towards the Port of Hammamet, 1914
Red and White Domes, 1914
In the houses of St. Germain, 1914
Hammamet with mosque, 1914
Foehn Wind in Marc's Garden, 1915
The Chapel, 1917
Pious northern landscape, 1917
City of Churches, 1918
Villa R, 1919
Swamp legend, 1919
Summer houses, 1919
Rose garden, 1920

Abstract Art

Colour Shapes, 1914
Hamamet, 1914
Side Panels for 'Anatomy of Aphrodite', 1915
Cacodemonic, 1916
With the Egg, 1917
Once Emerged from the Gray of Night, 1918
Southern (Tunisian) gardens, 1919
Fugue in red, 1921
City Picture with Red and Green Accents, 1921
Crystal, 1921
Transparent in perspective Grooved, 1921
The messenger of autumn, 1922

Surrealism

In the box, 1908
Apparatus for the Magnetic Treatment of Plants, 1908
Asian entertainers, 1919
Before the snow, 1920
The Lamb, 1920
Diana in the Autumn Wind, 1921
Witch scene, 1921
Six species, 1921
Analysis of diverse perversities, 1922
Battle scene from the comic fantastic opera 'The Seafarer', 1923
Seventeen, 1923
Puppet theater, 1923

Artworks by Periods

Early Works

Rising Sun, 1907
Apparatus for the Magnetic Treatment of Plants, 1908
In the box, 1908
The signatories to the window (The artist at the window), 1909
Flower stand with watering can and bucket, 1910
Colour Shapes, 1914
Hamamet, 1914
Hammamet with mosque, 1914
In the houses of St. Germain, 1914
Red and White Domes, 1914
Remembrance of a Garden, 1914
Windows and palm trees, 1914

Bauhaus

A young ladys adventure, 1921
Fugue in red, 1921
Bird Wandering Off, 1921
City Picture with Red and Green Accents, 1921
Crystal, 1921
Diana in the Autumn Wind, 1921
Dream City, 1921
Ravaged land, 1921
Revolving House, 1921
Six species, 1921
Southern gardens, 1921
The Saint of Inner Light, 1921

Late Works

Promenade in the Orient, 1932
Ad Parnassum, 1932
Fire, Full Moon, 1933
The Future Man, 1933
Coming to bloom, 1934
Mountain Village (Autumnal), 1934
Sparse foliage, 1934
At the Core, 1935
Evening shows, 1935
After the floods, 1936
A kind of cat, 1937
Boats in the Flood, 1937

Artworks by Genre

battle painting

Battle scene from the comic fantastic opera 'The Seafarer', 1923

religious painting

The Lamb, 1920
New Angel, 1920

mythological painting

Witch scene, 1921
Fairy tale of the Dwarf, 1925

symbolic painting

Death for the Idea, 1915
Fish Magic, 1925
Struck from the List, 1933

genre painting

Bad band, 1920
Veil Dance, 1920
Analysis of diverse perversities, 1922
Puppet theater, 1923
Rope dancer, 1923
Strong Dream, 1929
Promenade in the Orient, 1932
Love Song by the New Moon, 1939
Death and fire, 1940
Mumon drunk falls into the chair, 1940
Hoffmanneske scene, 1940
The Travelling Circus, c.1940

portrait

In the box, 1908
The signatories to the window (The artist at the window), 1909
Enlightenment of two Sectie, 1918
The Saint of Inner Light, 1921
Diana in the Autumn Wind, 1921
A young ladys adventure, 1921
Senecio, 1922
The singer L as Fioridigli, 1923
Pierrot Lunaire, 1924
Possessed girl, 1924
The Mask with the Little Flag, 1925
Portrait of a Man, 1925

nude painting (nu)

A woman for Gods, 1938

cityscape

Houses near the Gravel Pit, 1913
Hammamet with mosque, 1914
In the houses of St. Germain, 1914
Red and White Domes, 1914
Windows and palm trees, 1914
The Chapel, 1917
City of Churches, 1918
Two country houses, 1918
A pressure of Tegernsee, 1919
Villa R, 1919
With the Setting Sun, 1919
Summer houses, 1919

landscape

Remembrance of a Garden, 1914
Foehn Wind in Marc's Garden, 1915
Pious northern landscape, 1917
Little Tree Amid Shrubbery, 1919
Park, 1920
Before the snow, 1920
Southern gardens, 1921
Ravaged land, 1921
Tropical twilight, 1921
Stage Landscape, 1922
Landscape with Yellow Birds, 1923
Landscape with Sunset, 1923

marina

View Towards the Port of Hammamet, 1914
Groynes, 1925
Boats in the Flood, 1937
Harbour with sailing ships, 1937

cloudscape

Rising Sun, 1907
Full moon, 1919
Cosmic Composition, 1919
Rising Star, 1923
Before the Blitz, 1923
Clouds over Bor, 1940

animal painting

Bird Wandering Off, 1921
The Goldfish, 1925
Fish Image, 1925
A kind of cat, 1937
Blue bird pumpkin, 1939
Mess of fish, 1940
Cat and Bird

flower painting

Flower stand with watering can and bucket, 1910
Flower myth, 1918
Growth of the night plants, 1922
Sparse foliage, 1934
This flower wishes to fade, 1939
Flowers in Stone, 1939
Flora on rocks Sun, 1940

still life

Apparatus for the Magnetic Treatment of Plants, 1908
Still Life with Thistle Bloom, 1919
Aroundfish, 1926
Fruits on Red, 1930
Still Life with Dove, 1931
The vase, 1938
Untitled (Still life), 1940
Chinese porcelain, 1940

design

Wall Painting from the Temple of Longing, 1922

figurative painting

Swamp legend, 1919
Six species, 1921
Seventeen, 1923
Tale of Hoffmann, 1925

abstract painting

Colour Shapes, 1914
Hamamet, 1914
In the Style of Kairouan, 1914
Side Panels for 'Anatomy of Aphrodite', 1915
Cacodemonic, 1916
With the Egg, 1917
Once Emerged from the Gray of Night, 1918
Asian entertainers, 1919
Southern (Tunisian) gardens, 1919
Dream City, 1921
Crystal, 1921
City Picture with Red and Green Accents, 1921

Artworks by Technique

aquatint

Rock Chamber, 1929

chalk

Red Balloon, 1922

crayon

Asian entertainers, 1919

gouache

Bird Wandering Off, 1921
Battle scene from the comic fantastic opera 'The Seafarer', 1923
Before the Blitz, 1923
Structural II, 1924
Strong Dream, 1929
Likeness in the bower, 1930
Sparse foliage, 1934
Magdalena before the conversion, 1938
WI (In Memoriam), 1938

lithography

Death for the Idea, 1915
The Saint of Inner Light, 1921
The Travelling Circus, c.1940

oil

Still Life with Thistle Bloom, 1919
Villa R, 1919
Cosmic Composition, 1919
Bad band, 1920
Destroyed place, 1920
Southern gardens, 1921
Revolving House, 1921
Witch scene, 1921
Red Balloon, 1922
Growth of the night plants, 1922
Landscape with Sunset, 1923
Battle scene from the comic fantastic opera 'The Seafarer', 1923

pen

With the Egg, 1917
City of Churches, 1918
Analysis of diverse perversities, 1922
Groynes, 1925

pencil

City of Churches, 1918
Battle scene from the comic fantastic opera 'The Seafarer', 1923

ink

Groynes, 1925

watercolor

The signatories to the window (The artist at the window), 1909
Flower stand with watering can and bucket, 1910
Houses near the Gravel Pit, 1913
Colour Shapes, 1914
Red and White Domes, 1914
With the Egg, 1917
City of Churches, 1918
Once Emerged from the Gray of Night, 1918
Asian entertainers, 1919
A pressure of Tegernsee, 1919
Summer houses, 1919
Miraculous Landing, 1920

mixed technique

Fish Image, 1925
Neuer Stadtteil in M, 1928

watercolour

Separation in the Evening, 1922
Crystalline Landscape, 1929
Oriental Architecture, 1929

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