Paul Klee Paintings Posters Prints Fine Art

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Paul Klee

Paul Klee - bornDecember 18, 1879, died June 29, 1940 - had been a Swiss artist of German nationality. He was shaped by numerous different art styles which may be seen in his paintings, such styles which includes expressionism, cubism as well as surrealism. Klee was a scholar of orientalism. Klee, as well as his acquaintance, the renowned Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky, were celebrated for their teaching with the Bauhaus school of art and architecture.

Klee had been born in Munchenbuchsee, Switzerland, to a musical family. His father, named Hans Klee, had been a German music instructor at the Hofwil Teacher Seminar close to the city of Bern. Klee began at a young age learning both art and music. By age of 7, he began playing the violin and by the age of eight, he grandmother had given her young grandchild a gift of a box of chalk. After that young Paul had been promoted to begin drawing.

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Klee might have pursued a career in either art or music when he became an adult; in his young age, being a musician had been his first choice, however afterward, as a teenager, he selected a profession in chose visual arts . He had art training and instruction with the Academy of Fine Arts located in Munich where he studied with Heinrich Knirr, as well took lessons from famous symbolist artist Franz von Stuck. Klee visited Italy for a period then returned to Bern, where he settled to live in Munich. It would be in Munich that he would meet fellow artists Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, as well as additional members avant-garde art world, and would forge a connection with Der Blaue Reiter. Also in Munich Klee met a Bavarian pianist named Lily Stumpf, whom he wed; the couple bore a single son who they named Felix Paul.

During 1914 he traveled Tunisia accompanied by August Macke and Louis Moilliet. Klee later remarked that he had been had been moved by the caliber of the lighting he saw in Tunisia. Klee likewise took a trip to Italy as traveled in Egypt each of these countries strongly molded his future painting. He had been among the Die Blaue Vier, or The Blue Four, a group with such prestigious members as American born German cubist expressionist painter Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky and russian expressionist painter Alexej von Jawlensky Jawlensky; organized during 1923. The group lectured as well as exhibited jointly in America during 1924. Klee's work would inspire the art of other famous painters of the early twentieth century which includes celebrated Belgian printmaker Rene Carcan.
Klee applied several assorted types of media from oil paint, ink, watercolor, and others which he frequently blended into a single piece. He has been loosely linked with expressionism, cubism as well as surrealism, however his paintings are challenging to classify into an single category. His painting frequently bears a delicate, naive timber and are typically executed on a small scale. They oftentimes refer to poetry, music as well as dreams and many contain phrases or musical notes. The paintings of his mature years are marked by wispy symbols resembling hieroglyph that he famously later reported to be, "A line is a dot going for a walk". Klee's more recognized art are Southern Gardens, Ad Parnassum, as well as Embrace.

During World War I Klee painted the camouflage work for airplanes in the imperial German army, then following the war went on to teach at the Bauhaus. Later from 1931, he had been an instructor with the Dusseldorf Academy until the artists was stigmatized by the Nazi Party for creating "degenerate art" during 1933. The degenerate art exhibit catalogs went as far as to label Klee's painting as "the work of a sick mind."

Composer Gunther Schuller commemorated seven paintings of Klee's in his piece titled Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee. The studies compositions are founded on a array of Klee's art, such as Antique Harmonies, Little Blue Devil, Abstract Trio, Arab Village, Twittering Machine, An Eerie Moment as well as the painting Pastorale.

Senecio - Paul Klee

One of Klee's paintings, Angelus Novus, had been the target of an interpretive text by German philosopher as well as literary critic Walter Benjamin, who bought the picture during 1921. For his "Theses on the Philosophy of History," Benjamin indicates that an angel portrayed within the piece could be viewed as symbolizing advance in history. During 1933, Paul Klee went back to Switzerland; during 1935, he started out going through the symptoms of what became named as scleroderma following his death. The advancement of the terminal case of this disease may be observed in the art he produced during his final years.

During 1938 Steinway pianos produced a "Paul Klee series", to mark the manner in that Klee joined the art forms of both music as well as visual art. Merely five hundred such pianos had been made in this limited set, with Vladimir Horowitz having been one of such to buy the piano. Paul Klee reported the series to be "a great honor and privilege. This tribute has affirmed my life's work."

He passed away in Muralto, Switzerland, during 1940 without having received Swiss citizenship. The Swiss government at length recognized his petition six days following his passing away. While Paul Klee died at years 60, he imparted at minimum 8926 works of art. The phrases upon his tombstone read, "I belong not only to this life. I live as well with the dead, as with those not born. Nearer to the heart of creation than others, but still too far." Nowadays, a work by Paul Klee is coveted by collectors and could sell for $7.5 million.

The Mask with the Little Flag - Paul Klee

Paul Klee Selected Paintings

Abfahrender steamer (1927)
Abstract - Architectural (with the yellow and blue ball) (1915)
Old and Young
Young and old (green and red) (1913)
Old City on the Water (1924)
Arrival of the Dragon Air (1927)
Air arrival of the Dragon (1927)
Aquarium (1927)
Arab City (1922)
Travelling (1939)
Auferstehende (1938)
View of la Vigie (1933)
Built-up bank (1930)
Built-up bank (1930)
Bedaute mountain terrace (1939)
Mountain Ridge (1930)
Berg-Wild/Ohne title (1940)
Modest home (1928)
Sheets (1932)
Blue Coat (1940)
Look of the devil (1917)
Flower in the valley (1938)
Flower girl (1940)
Bride and bridegroom in Herbs of Life (1930)
Stage Landscape (1922)
Colorful landscape (1928)
Burg angle (1932)
Chinese (1923)
Clown (1929)
Clown and Child (1931)
Clown with a Child
Comme des fleurs dans un verre (1933)
Côte Méridional: Southern coast of the evening (1925)
Country House in the North (1925)
Dame in the broad hat (lady in a wide-brimmed hat) (1931)
With Collier Dame (Woman with Necklace) (1932)
The house in the high (1923)
The thinking artist (1919)
The opposite Arrow (1933)
The yellow donkey (1939)
The yellow-green (1938)
The hill (1922)
The Future (1933)
Diana (1931)
The fruit (1932)
The singer than Fiordilligi L. (1923-1939)
The vase (1937)
A magician experimentierend (1939)
A kind of high-rise building (a kind of skyscraper) (1940)
Lonely Christmas (1932)
Remote landscape (remote Landscape) (1931)
Surveys (1937)
It is built (1940)
Celebration and Downfall (1920)
Fire Source (1938)
Women in Sunday's (1928)
Fruit of the coast (1933)
Garden in the level I (1920)
Hot garden in time (1938)
Mountain lake (1924)
Siblings (1930)
Gleitendes (1930)
Houses staircase (1923)
High-and Flora (1937)
Hut on the mountain (1922)
In Flowers (1938)
In the clouds (1930)
In the Opera House
Young garden, rhythms (1927)
Fight with themselves (1939)
Children from the city (1928)
Kiosk architecture (1920)
Kl.Landschaft (1919)
Small landscape with the village church (1925)
Small seaport (1937)
Small weihnachtsstilleben (1914)
Small fruit handler (1938)
Capita (1919)
Landscape, Tunis (1914)
Gingerbread image (1925)
Gelbem girl with hat
Masks in the twilight (1938)
Sign for later (1938)
Midleidend (1925)
Mondauf-Sunset (1919)
After the flower (1932)
Orchard (1925)
Untitled (Two lying Act).
Orient Festival (1927)
Park, with the cool Crescent (1926)
Arrow and funnel (1919-1920)
Plant image (yellow and red) (1920)
Seat cushions (1935)
Port Cros Diary: View from la Vigie towards levant (1933)
Reed-Boats (1919)
Revelling Woman (1938)
Rosa (1920)
Ruines of al (1926)
Scheibar modest (1937)
Schildman (1940)
Toterin snake (1923)
One final image tragicomedy (Final Scene of a Tragicomedy)
See Genspenst = (1933)
Siedelung at the quarry (settlement by the Quarry) (1926)
Stadtartiger building (1917)
Sternendeuter (1922)
Radiation and rotation (1924)
Dancer, Elevin (Dancer, Elevin) (1930)
Tiergarten (1928)
Tiergarten (1928)
Animal madness (1930)
Umgelegtes (Things laid down) (1934)
Initial Unknown (1939)
Verspannte surfaces (1930)
Full Moon in walls (1919)
Suburban-yard (1915)
What in the land of Chamonix happened ... (1940)
At the beginning of a festival (1940)
At the beginning of a festival (1940)
In Memory of a crime (1939)
Twins (1930)

Abfahrender Dampfer (1927)
Abstract - Architektonisches (mit der gelben und blauen kugel) (1915)
Alt und Jung
Alt und Jung (Grün und Rot) (1913)
Alte Stadt am Wasser (1924)
Ankunft der Luftdrache (1927)
Ankunft des Luftdrachen (1927)
Aquarium (1927)
Arabische Stadt (1922)
Auf Reisen (1939)
Auferstehende (1938)
Aussicht von la Vigie (1933)
AUSTRIA , 12 Dec 2000
Bebautes Ufer (1930)
Bebautes Ufer (1930)
Bedaute Berg-Terrasse (1939)
Bergrücken (1930)
Berg-Wild/Ohne Titel (1940)
Bescheidene Heimat (1928)
Blätter (1932)
Blaumantel (1940)
Blick des Dämons (1917)
Blume im Tal (1938)
Blumen Madchen (1940)
Braut und Bräutigam in Herbs des Lebens (1930)
Bühnenlandschaft (1922)
Bunte Landschaft (1928)
Burgwinkel (1932)
Chinesisch (1923)
Clown (1929)
Clown mit Kind (1931)
Clown with a Child
Comme des fleurs dans un verre (1933)
Côte Méridional: Südliche Küste abends (1925)
Country House in the North (1925)
Dame im breiten Hut (lady in a wide-brimmed hat) (1931)
Dame Mit Collier (Woman with Necklace) (1932)
Das haus in der hohe (1923)
Der denkende Künstler (1919)
Der Gegenpfeil (1933)
Der gelbe Esel (1939)
Der Gelb-Grüne (1938)
Der Hügel (1922)
Der Künftige (1933)
Diana (1931)
Die Frucht (1932)
Die Sängerin L. als Fiordilligi (1923-1939)
Die Vase (1937)
Ein Magier experimentierend (1939)
Eine Art Hochhaus (a Kind of Skyscraper) (1940)
Einsame Tanne (1932)
Entlegene Landschaft (Remote Landscape) (1931)
Erhebungen (1937)
Es wird gebaut (1940)
Feier und Untergang (1920)
Feuer Quelle (1938)
Frau im Sontagsstat (1928)
Frucht der Kuste (1933)
Garten in der Ebene I (1920)
Garten in Heissen Zeit (1938)
Gebirgssee (1924)
Geschwister (1930)
Gleitendes (1930)
Häusertreppe (1923)
Hohenflora (1937)
Hütte am Berg (1922)
In Blüte (1938)
In den Wolken (1930)
In the Opera House
Junger Garten, Rhythmen (1927)
Kämpft mit sich selber (1939)
Kinder vor der Stadt (1928)
Kiosk-Architectur (1920)
Kl.Landschaft (1919)
Kleine Landschaft mit der Dorfkirche (1925)
Kleine Seehafen (1937)
Kleine weihnachtsstilleben (1914)
Kleiner Obst-Handler (1938)
Kopf (1919)
Landschaft, Tunis (1914)
Lebkuchenbild (1925)
Madchen mit Gelbem Hut
Masken im Zwielicht (1938)
Merkzeichen für später (1938)
Midleidend (1925)
Mondauf-Sonnenuntergang (1919)
Nach der Blüte (1932)
Obstgarten (1925)
Ohne Titel (Zwei liegende Akte).
Orient-Fest (1927)
Park mit dem kühlen Halbmond (1926)
Pfeil und Trichter (1919-1920)
Pflanzenbild (mit Gelb und Rot) (1920)
Polstersitz (1935)
Port Cros Diary: View from la Vigie towards levant (1933)
Reed-Boats (1919)
Revelling Woman (1938)
Rosa (1920)
Ruines von al (1926)
Scheibar bescheiden (1937)
Schildman (1940)
Schlangen-Toterin (1923)
Schlussbild Einer Tragikomodie (Final Scene of a Tragicomedy)
See=Genspenst (1933)
Siedelung am Steinbruch (Settlement by the Quarry) (1926)
Stadtartiger Aufbau (1917)
Sternendeuter (1922)
Strahlung und Rotation (1924)
Tänzerin, Elevin (Dancer, Elevin) (1930)
Tiergarten (1928)
Tiergarten (1928)
Tierwahn (1930)
Umgelegtes (Things laid down) (1934)
Unbekannte Initiale (1939)
Verspannte Flächen (1930)
Vollmond in Mauern (1919)
Vorstadt-Hof (1915)
Was im Grund von Chamonix...passierte (1940)
Zu Beginn eines Festes (1940)
Zu Beginn eines Festes (1940)
Zur Erinnerung an ein Verbrechen (1939)
Zwillinge (1930)

Revolving House - Paul Klee

Ad Parnassum - Paul Klee

Attrappen - Paul Klee

Black Columns in a Landscape - Paul Klee

Ventriloquist and Crier in the Moor - Paul Klee

Farbtafel

Fire in the Evening

Reconstructing

Monument in Fertile Country

  • pudge14 Feb 19, 2012 @ 6:16 pm | delete
    The story about Steinway in 1938 creating 500 "Paul Klee series" pianos is a complete fraud. I am writing a book on Klee and music and, trust me, I know this never happened. No Klee pianos, ever. Steinway company confirmed it for me. This hoax story has spread all over the Internet by various, rather reputable sites that assume it is true merely because other sites show it. Whoever created it's getting a good laugh. Further proof that when the Internet, post-books, becomes our major source of information, we're all doomed. Steve Ellis
  • Mark Feb 7, 2012 @ 1:28 am | delete
    I have a Paul Klee framed poster I got at an estate sale. I am looking for information on the man and the particular artwork : It say "ohne Titel stilleben 1940" at the bottom. Anyone know its possible value?
  • Close2Art Aug 6, 2011 @ 4:00 pm | delete
    awesome artist, thanks for sharing....RWJR
  • Shelley Aug 4, 2011 @ 8:04 am | delete
    I need help to identify a print can someone help me. It is 1928 Looks like children jumping rope I can recognize one word KINDER ...I can send foto if need be. Thanks S
  • SereneSea May 17, 2011 @ 10:02 pm | delete
    Beautiful paintings of Paul Klee in the lens, he is a great artist.
  • MelissaInTheSky Mar 4, 2011 @ 7:31 pm | delete
    I am a big fan, have always loved Paul Klee. Thanks for a lovely lens.
  • Michey Feb 26, 2011 @ 11:57 am | delete
    Great resource lens on Paul Klee, he is my favorite, Dali is too abstract for my test, but Klee resonates with me.
    Thanks
  • oil_painting Feb 20, 2011 @ 4:31 am | delete
    Cool lens thanks for sharing
  • RGebbiePhoto Feb 4, 2011 @ 12:10 am | delete
    Another beautiful selection of work, thanks for sharing.
  • yourgoldenfuture Jan 13, 2011 @ 12:04 pm | delete
    paul klees art-auctions recently went higher then ever if i remember right... he was genius...
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