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Paul Klee :
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Klee was born on December 18, 1879, in Munchenbuchsee, Switzerland,
into a family of musicians. His childhood love of music was always
to remain profoundly important in his life and work. From 1898 to
1901, Klee studied in Munich. Upon completing his schooling, he traveled
to Italy in the first in a series of trips abroad that nourished
his visual sensibilities. He settled in Bern in 1902. A series of
his satirical etchings was exhibited at the Munich Secession in 1906.
That same year, Klee married Lily Stumpf, a pianist, and moved to
Munich. Here he gained exposure to Modern art. |
1879-1940 |
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In 1920, a major Klee retrospective was held in Munich. Klee taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar from 1921 to 1926 and in Dessau from 1926 to 1931. During his tenure, he was in close contact with other Bauhaus masters, such as Kandinsky and Lyonel Feininger. In 1924, the Blaue Vier, consisting of Lyonel Feininger, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, and Klee, was founded. Among his notable exhibitions of this period were his first in the United States in 1924; his first major show in Paris the following year and an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1930. Klee went to Dusseldorf to teach at the Akademie in 1931, shortly before the Nazis closed the Bauhaus. Forced by the Nazis to leave his position in Dusseldorf in 1933, Klee settled in Bern the following year. Klee died on June 29, 1940, in Muralto-Locarno, Switzerland. |
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