Paul Klee
1879-1940 Switzerland/Abstract
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Brief Biography-Paul Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland. Both of his parents were musically inclined; he was first trained as a violinist but was also a gifted poet. Art, however, was his choice of profession, and he went to Munich to study under Franz Ritter von Stuck in 1898. He returned to work in Berne until 1906, when he got married and moved back to Munich to exhibit his works afterwards. The paintings of artists such as Van Gogh and Matisse influenced him, whose use of colour impressed him most, even though his images were typically black and white. However, the works of the Blaue Reiter artists and Robert Delaunayinspired him to the utmost. His colour transition came about when he was overwhelmed by the light of Tunisia, which he visited with August Mache and Louis Moilliet in 1914. |
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