Paul Klee

The painter Paul Klee was born in 1879 in Muenchenbuchsee near Bern.

In 1898 - in 1901 the young painter studied in Munich and learnt, among the rest, with Franz von Stuck. Then he spent some years in Italy.

In the first years Paul Klee dealt primarily with the graphic arts. When Klee sat down in 1906 in Munich, he also got to know the artist Wassily Kandinski to whose artist's union "the blue rider" joined Paul Klee 1910.

Paul Klee was influenced by Delauney as well as other painters of the cubism and Orphismus. Colour became his most important creation principle.

In the beginning of 1914 Paul Klee together with August Macke and Louis Moillet undertook a trip to Tunisia which influenced his works strongly . Above all, he painted in watercolors flooded with light the moods of the country.

In 1921 - in 1931 Paul Klee taught in Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau. There originated numerous constructivistic works. In 1933 Klee, who was meanwhile a professor at the Duesseldorf academy was dismissed by the Nazis.

Paul Klee returned in Switzerland and died there in 1940.