Paul Klee was a Swiss artist who taught at the Bauhaus school and was known for his experimental style in color and line. He joined the Munich expressionist art group and was inspired by a visit to North Africa. He was fired from the Dusseldorf Academy by the Nazis and moved to Switzerland where he was diagnosed with scleroderma. His illness affected his art style and his last painting was called Still Life. He died in 1940.
Paul Klee is a Swiss artist known for his innovations in modern art painting. He taught at the famous Bauhaus school and was a friend of Wassily Kandinsky. Paul Klee’s experimental style went beyond any particular artistic movement and his explorations in color and line are well remembered.
Paul Klee was born on December 18, 1879 near Bern, Switzerland. He was a German citizen who lived in Munich, Germany for 35 years. Paul Klee’s art education began at a private school in Munich and then he attended the Munich Academy to study art in the early 1900s. Although an accomplished violinist, Klee decided to become a visual artist rather than a musical artist.
After marrying pianist Lili Stumpt in 1906, Paul Klee joined the Munich expressionist art group, Der Blaue Reiter, or The Blue Rider. In the early 1900s, Klee did many black and white etchings. The engraving used symbols such as letters of the alphabet and numbers. He has also experimented with many different art techniques ranging from dark lines to mosaics.
In 1914, Paul Klee began using color heavily in his work, inspired by a visit to North Africa. Klee taught art at both the Dusseldorf Academy and the Bauhaus school. Although he ended up teaching at the Bauhaus for eleven years, he was fired from the Dusseldorf Academy for being a “degenerate” worker as deemed by the Nazis. Paul Klee left Germany for Switzerland in 1933.
Shortly after arriving in Switzerland, Klee was diagnosed with scleroderma, a rare disease that affects the skin and muscles. Her scleroderma affected his art style as it restricted her movement and her black lines became thicker and more prevalent and larger areas of color started to become part of her artwork. Many of her paintings from the mid-1930s onwards were dark and moody in tone. In contrast, the last painting Klee made before her death is a visual summary of his style of art called Still Life. Paul Klee died on June 29, 1940 in Switzerland.
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