Paul Klee

By: Miranda Flinchum

Was born in Munchenbuchsee, Switzerland

December 18, 1879 - June 29, 1940

Considered both a German and a Swiss painter.

Swiss German

Was born in a Musical Family

His Father, Hans Klee, was a German music teacher

His mother, Ida Frick, had trained to be a singer

Klee was the second of two children

He found more creativity towards art rather then music as did the rest of his family.

At sixteen his landscape drawings already showed considerable skill.

His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.

His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included:

EXPRESSIONISM

CUBISM

SURREALISM

6 Interesting facts!

Klee appears to be equally talented in both music and drawing.

He was developing some experimental techniques, including drawing with a needle on a blackened pane of glass

Became associated with an art group named Der Blaue Rieter (The Blue rider)

Married a pianist

Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered color theory, and wrote extensively about it; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory

They were called, Paul Klee Notebooks

One of his last paintings, "Death and Fire", features a skull in the center with the German word for death, "Tod", appearing in the face