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Artist: Paul Klee (1879 - 1940)
Nationality: Swiss
Movement: Expressionism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
Born in Switzerland, Paul Klee studied and worked as an etcher in Munich before joining the Blaue Reiter group in 1911. His initial media of choice was watercolor in the Expressionist style, however Klee soon fell under the spell of Cubism and oils after meeting Robert Delaunay. From 1920 to 1933, Klee taught at the Bauhaus and explored his abstract paintings that were often derived from folk and children’s art. Klee was condemned as a degenerate by the Nazis in 1933, and subsequently returned to Switzerland where he died in 1940.


Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Paul Klee, Riesenblattlaus, 1920
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Paul Klee, The Lady Gardener, 1932
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Paul Klee, Ausloeschendes Licht, 1919
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Paul Klee, Alte Stadt mit Holzbrucke, 1925
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Paul Klee, Die Hexe mit dem Kamm (The Witch with the Comb), 1922
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Paul Klee, Der Schreckliche Traum (The Terrible Dream), 1919
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts -
Artist: Paul Klee Title: Howling Dog Date: 1928 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: H.17-1/2 x
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Paul Klee, Seiltanzer (Tightrope Walker) from Kunst der Gegenwart (Contemporary Art) (Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1923), 1923
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Temple Gardens, 1920 Paul Klee (German, 1879-1940)Gouache and traces of ink on paper; H. 7-1/4,
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Paul Klee - Asiatic God 1924 oil on board The Art Institute of Chicago Swiss
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Paul Klee - Stakim c. 1928 oil on plaster The Art Institute of Chicago Swiss
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Paul klee - Exotics 1939 oil on burlap The Art Institute of Chicago Swiss
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Paul Klee - Cat and Birh 1928 oil and ink on gesso The Museum of Modern Art Swiss
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Paul Klee - Around the Fish 1926 oil and tempera on c The Museum of Modern Art Swiss
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Paul Klee - Sunset 1930 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago Swiss
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Paul Klee - Schoolhouse 1920 oil on paper on boar The Art Institute of Chicago Swiss
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Paul Klee - Howling Dog 1928 oil on canvas Minneapolis Institute of Arts Swiss
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Paul Klee - Fairy Tales c. 1920 watercolor and gouac Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Swiss
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Paul Klee - Old Married Couple 1931 tempera on burlap Norton Museum of Art Swiss
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Paul Klee - Thistle Garden 1918 watercolor, ink Arkansas Arts Center Swiss
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Paul Klee - The Sublime Aspect 1923 lithograph on paper The Art Gallery University of Maryland
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Paul Klee - Hardy Plants 1934 oil on pulpboard Minneapolis Institute of Arts Swiss
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Paul Klee - In the Magic Mirror 1934 Oil on canvas on boa The Art Institute of Chicago Swiss
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Paul Klee - Dancing Girl 1940 oil on cloth The Art Institute of Chicago Swiss
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Paul Klee - Strange Glance 1930 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago Swiss
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Paul Klee - Fleeing Ghost 1929 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago Swiss
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Paul Klee - Castle Garden 1931 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Swiss
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Paul Klee - The Kettledrum Organ (Die Paukenorgel) 1930 oil on paper board Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College Swiss
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Paul Klee - Anlege Platz (Anchorage) 1928 oil on parchment mou Des Moines Art Center Swiss
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Paul Klee - Vocal Fabric of the Singer Rosa Silber 1922 watercolor and plast The Museum of Modern Art Swiss
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Paul Klee - Jungfrau im Baum (Virgin in the Tree) from Inventions 1903 etchings The Museum of Modern Art Swiss
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Paul Pontius, Portrait of Paul Pontius (Paul de Pont) Graveur, 17th century
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Paul Cezanne - The Artist's Son, Paul 1885-1890 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art French
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Paul Gavarni, Paul! mon ami! me prendriez-vous..., 19th century
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Paul Angier, Roman Ruins, After Paul Pannini, 18th century
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Paul Tournachon (Paul Nadar), Edmond Rostrand (1868-1918), circa 1896
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Paul Pontius, Portrait of Peter Paul Rubens, Peintre, 17th century
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Chuck Close - Paul III 1996 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Vincenzo Foppa - St. Paul 1450-1460 tempera on panel Minneapolis Institute of Arts Italian
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RenÈ-Georges-Herman Paul (Hermann-Paul), Promeneuses (#65), 19th - 20th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Landscapes by Klee and Kiefer
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Metropolitan Museum of Art: Klee Paintings
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Paul Klee: Recent Acquisitions of the Djerassi Collection
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Sprengel Museum: Paul Klee - Late Works
Paul Klee - Late Works is part of an exhibition trilogy focussing on Klee (Klee in the North) which is on view not only at the Sprengel Museum Hannover, but also at the Kunsthalle Bremen and
Hayward Gallery:
Paul Klee: The Nature of Creation
Paul Klee (1879 – 1940) is one of the great masters of modern art. Widely known for the magical quality and spontaneity of his intimate paintings and drawings, he is ...

Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Palais Liechtenstein: Klee, Tanguy, Miro Three Approaches to Landscape.
The art-historical tradition of landscape painting was radically transformed by classical modernity. In the wake of the Impressionists, landscape was turned into an artful construction that uses Nature merely as a stimulus ...

Hamburger Kunsthalle: Paul Klee: The Buergi Collection
his first - and perhaps last - presentation of Bürgi Collection not only offers the viewing public an ...

Joan Miró Foundation: Klee, Tanguy, Miró. Three approaches to landscape
Paul Klee (München-Buchsee, Berne, 1879 – Locarno, 1940) stands as a lone figure in the panorama of twentieth-century painting. A member of the Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter, he was also a teacher at the Bauhaus. In the 1920s he began to t...

Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard: The Blue Rider Artists: Works from the Busch-Reisinger Museum and other Collections
Artists in the Blue Rider included Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, August Macke, as well as Franz Marc and others....

Cleveland Museum of Art: Twentieth-Century Works on Paper from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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Cleveland Museum of Art: Last Chance! Twentieth-Century Works on Paper from the Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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Bauhaus Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung: Division as Structure: Drawings and Reliefs from Paul Mason
The drawings establish various formal rhythms of marks based on geometrical forms such as the square, triangle, hexagon, and pentagon, with endless potential for different forms and structures. As increasingly the patterns break down they become o...

Diane Farris Gallery: Kathryn Jacobi: The Minor Pantheon
Inspired by the surrealist artists, in particular, Max Ernst and Paul Klee, the paintings are a meditation on the randomness of fate. Thematically they present history as a game, a puzzle. Things are not what they seem - are fragmented and tr...

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College: Summer Reading: The Recreation of Language in Twentieth-Century Art
Drawn from the collections of the Loeb Art Center and 14 public and private sources, this international survey unites paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, collages, books and book-objects, poet-artist collaborations, and more by over 50 ar...

Art Gallery of Ontario: From Michelangelo to Picasso: Great Master Drawings from the Collection of the Albertina, Vienna
The selection of drawings in this exhibition demonstrates the breadth and strength of the Albertina’s holdings. The exhibition will provide a comprehensive ove...

Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum: Jimmy Ernst: Transcending the Surreal
This retrospective exhibition features over 35 major paintings. It covers five decades of his art and looks at how he absorbed and transcended Surrealism to create his own unique mode of abstract painting. Jimmy Ernst’s paintings were influenced...

Diorama Gallery: Fables: Works by Anne-Lise Firth
The show is called Fables because the paintings are her own improvised stories, which cannot be put into words, but must instead be told large in oil on canvas. Anne-Lise received her BA in History of Art at the University of East Anglia and rece...

Centre Georges Pompidou: Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences
This spectacular exhibition will include 200 nineteenth- and twentieth-century artworks - paintings, drawings, prints, illustrated books and sculpture - and 300 cinema documents - production stills, posters, story boards, and set and ...

Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona: The City That Never Was: Fantastic Architectures in Western Art
The exhibition brings together in the region of 80 works of art on a variety of supports, including frescoes, painting, photography and installations. It turns around the genre of the architectural capriccio, from the 16th to the 18th century, wit...

Montreal Museum of Fine Art: Hitchcock and Art: Fatal Coincidences
Hitchcock: The Man and His Art Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) made more than fifty films. His name, synonymous with suspense, is legendary in the annals of cinematic history. He is ...

Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery: Overview: The Art of Fannie Hillsmith and Walter Kamys
Many life-long artists reach a certain level and remain there, but Fannie Hillsmith and Walter Kamys continue to reinvent themselves, explains Maureen Ahern, director of the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery. Walter Kamys, who liv...

Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Alan Reynolds: 50 Years after the Royal College of Art
A quest for structure and equilibrium has always been at the heart of Reynolds' work. His engagement with landscape, from his native Suffolk to the hop gardens and orchards of his adoptive Kent, was inspired in part by Constable and Samuel Palmer ...

Ohio Art League: Gary Shaw, curated by John Antjas: Selling Nightmares – Buying Dreams
"Like the big bang he is constantly expanding a universe that's full of lost souls that he runs across in his personal experience. These experiences, whether they be from work, the bar, relationships, or anyplace at all, become his own personal my...

Museum Ludwig: ART-WORLDS IN DIALOGUE
These dialogues are as multifarious as the artists who conduct them. The approximately 120 artists in this exhibition have each found their own, highly individual ways of exploring and examining one or more culture...

Michael Werner Gallery: Recent Paintings by Georg Baselitz
All of the works in the exhibition have direct sources in paintings the artist made as a teenager during the 1950s, and in fact certain works bear the dates ‘1953’, ‘1954’ or ‘1955’ as part of their iconography. This combination of personal histo...

Pump House Gallery: Katy Dove: New Commisioned Work
Dove's mesmerising kaleidoscopic animations investigate the complex relationship between perception, colour and sound. Much of her work takes the form of a visual and audio representation of an idea, emotion or perception using animation to red...

Haus der Kunst: GROTESQUE! 130 Years of Witty Art
GROTESQUE! 130 Years of Witty Art presents works possessing those characteristics attributed to the concept of the grotesque in Meyers Konversationslexikon (an influential encyclopaedia) in 1895: "The result of a humour which - apparently without ...

Pretoria Art Museum: Max Chiwei Liu (1911-2002)
Max Liu was influenced by his cultural anthropology studies among aborigines, Vietnam, Peru and East Africa. Paul Klee’s dreamlike images also fascinated the artist. Max Liu painted from his imagination semi-abstract images with a mystical, almost...

Bergen Art Museum: Anxiety and Desire. Surrealism in Scandinavia 1930-1950
The Scandinavian Surrealists were eccentric and individualistic, their art received criticism and alienation in their home countries. They personally knew, exhibited internationally with and were inspired by S.Dali, P.Klee, V.Kandinsky, M.Ernst as...

ArtHaus: Group Exhibition: LOCATION ~ LOCATION
Serena Bocchino’s paintings and drawings translate the compositional, spontaneous rhythm of jazz into a two dimensional form. Her work uses rhythm, volume and tone to capture different ways in which line may interact with color. A New York Times ...

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Paul Klee - Art Images - Works and Biography - OCAIW
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Biographie: Paul Klee, 1879-1940
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