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PAUL KLEE

PAUL KLEE. Miranda Kilman 2 nd hr. Background. Born in Münchenbuchsee , Switzerland Age 7: talented violinist. parents pushed him to be a musician. Felt playing music had no meaning for him. Continued. 1898 - Academy of Fine Arts in Munich .

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PAUL KLEE

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  1. PAUL KLEE Miranda Kilman 2nd hr.

  2. Background Born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland Age 7: talented violinist. parents pushed him to be a musician. Felt playing music had no meaning for him.

  3. Continued • 1898 - Academy of Fine Arts in Munich . • Expressed black-and-white grotesques and satires. • Klee married Bavarian pianist Lily Stumpf in 1906 • One son named Felix Paul. • 1916 - the German war effort, and painted camouflage on airplanes /worked as a clerk.

  4. AbOvo watercolor on gauze and paper with a chalk ground: sophisticated technique

  5. Known For… • simple stick figures • suspended fish • moon faces • eyes • arrows • quilts of color • orchestrated into fantastic and childlike yet deeply meditative works. • he became involved with the German Expressionist group DerBlaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), founded by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc in 1911.

  6. fantastic and childlike

  7. ART WORK • Titles: major part in work. Ironic, poetic, irreverent, expressionless, dismissive, or—near the end of his life—melancholic. • set up the perspectives from which he wanted the works to be seen. • Influence: Cubism of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, & abstract translucent color planes of Robert Delaunay.

  8. Paul Klee - 1911

  9. After the Armistice Klee taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau. • a brilliant and undogmatic teacher & stimulating writer on art. The most important book Klee wrote during this period was, Pedagogical Stetchbook (1925). • The growth of fascism in Europe affected Klee and he suffered from acute depression. In 1935 Klee developed scleroderma, a rare debilitating disease. • Paul Klee died in Muralto on 22nd June, 1940.

  10. Paul Klee - 1940

  11. Paul Klee quotes • “To emphasize only the beautiful seems to me to be like a mathematical system that only concerns itself with positive numbers.” • The painter should not paint what he sees, but what will be seen.” • “Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. ”

  12. Citations… Rewald, Sabine. "Paul Klee (1879–1940)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/klee/hd_klee.htm (October 2004) http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/show-full/bio/?artist_name=Paul%20Klee http://www.paulklee.net/paul-klee-quotes.jsp

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