Paul Klee

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Paul Klee
Artist
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• He was born on December 18, 1879. He was born in
  Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland.
• Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland is located near
  Berne, Switzerland.

This is where Münchenbuchsee is located

• He was born into a musical family.
• His father was Hanz Klee, he was a German music
  teacher at a school near Berne
• His mother, Ida Maria Frick, was also a musician

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Paul's Childhood

• Started both Music and Art at his young childhood
• At the age of 7, he started to play the violin
• At the age of 8, his grandmother gave him a
• box of chalk and encouraged him to draw
• In his earlier childhood he wanted to
• become a musician, but during his teen years
• he decided on the visual arts
• At the age of 19 he moved to Munich
• where he then studied art at a private
• school and at the Munich Academy

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• In 1906 he married the a pianist Lili Stumpf, and
  then settled in Munich, and had one son
• He then joined an expressionist group that
  contributed to much of the development of
  abstract art called Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue
  Rider)
• After WWI was over he then taught at the Bauhaus
  school

?This is the Bauhaus School

• Began teaching at Dusseldorf Academy in 1931, but
  he was dismissed by the Nazis, who termed his
  work degenerate
• In 1933, he went to Switzerland, and then there
  he came down w/ the disease Scleroderma

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His Art

• His visit to Italy and Egypt both greatly
  influenced his art
• He worked w/ many types of media such as oil
  paint, watercolor, ink, and more
• Paul often combined many types of media all in to
  one piece of art
• Associated w/ expressionism, cubism, and
  surrealism but his pictures are difficult to
  classify
• Most of the time, his pieces have a fragile
  child-like quality, and are usually on a small
  scale
• He used color in a variety of unique and diverse
  means
• He loved the natural world so much, that it was
  odd that he originally despised color
• Paul did not like using color, in many of his
  early projects he was forced to
• Eventually he learn to work w/ color w/ great
  skill and taught mixing and color theory to
  students at Bauhaus

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Paul's Death

• Paul died in Muralto, Switzerland in 1940 w/o
  having obtained Swiss citizenship
• He died at the age of 60
• He left at least 8,926 works of art
• A museum was built in Berne, Switzerland
  dedicated to him by an Italian architect, Renzo
  Piano
• The museum opened in June 2005 and contains about
  4,000 pieces of art by Paul Klee

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