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One of the most inventive and creative artists of the twentieth century - no rules for this guy. Here are some prints of just a few of his works that I like best. More information on Paul Klee can be found below.

Paul Klee Biography

Paul Klee was born in 1879 at Münchenbuchsee Switzerland to a very musical family. In 1899 he began studying at the Munich Academy, having moved to Munich the year before. IN 1906 he married the pianist Lily Stumpf, and they settled in Munich. He had his first major exhibition sin 1910-11 and in 1912 he had work included in the second exhibition of Der Blaue Rieder group of artists (see Wassily Kandinsky).

During the First World War Klee was called up and attached to an air force unit where he worked on aircraft repairs, including re-painting insignia. He returned to Munich in 1918 to find the avante-garde scene completely dispersed. He had a major retrospective exhibition in Munich in 1920 and started teaching at the Bauhaus in the same year, where he was soon joined by his friend and artist Wassily Kandinsky. Klee was one of the Blaue Vier (Blue Four) group of artists, formed in 1924 with Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger and Alexej Jawlensky. Klee had his first major show in Paris in 1925 and at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1930.

Klee was an relentlessly inventive artist who experimented relentlessly and was not constrained by conventions of style or materials. Like Kandinsky, he had a great talent for articulating his theories of art and analysing what he did. The Bauhaus was closed by the Nazis and Klee’s work, like Kandinsky’s was deemed to be ‘Degenerate’. In 1935 he developed sclerodermia, a fatal illness, and died on June 29, 1940, in Switzerland.

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