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  WebMuseum: Klee, Paul
Klee's studies in the related fields of natural history, comparative anatomy and anthropology had brought Klee to the belief that nature was characterized by the permutation and movement of fundamental units of construction.
Klee evolved a system of color organization in which all the colors of the spectrum were conceived of as moving around a central axis dominated by the three pigmentary colors - red, yellow and blue.
Paul Klee was one of the greatest colorists in the story of painting, and a skilled deployer of line.
www.ibiblio.org /wm/paint/auth/klee   (1765 words)

  
 Untitled Document   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Paul Klee was perhaps the most famous person to develop scleroderma (systemic sclerosis) and die from it.
Klee's position as a pioneer in modern art has increased steadily in the decades since his death in 1940, four years after the diagnosis of scleroderma was made at age 56.
Klee was a revered teacher and kept extensive and methodical notes on his paintings, placing importance on his titles for interpretation by his audience.
www.musc.edu /rheumatology/klee.html   (1146 words)

  
 Paul Klee - MSN Encarta
Paul Klee (1879-1940), Swiss painter, watercolorist, and etcher, who was one of the most original masters of modern art.
Klee was a teacher at the Bauhaus, Germany's most advanced art school, from 1920 to 1931.
Klee died in Muralto, Switzerland, on June 29, 1940.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761572833   (241 words)

  
 bauhaus-archiv museum of design - bauhaus 1919 - 1933 - classes - paul klee
Paul Klee's class was planned as a supplement to the preliminary course and as an investigation into formal means.
Klee based his observations on the convergence point of two lines in order to discuss the third dimension and its perspective representation.
Klee's color theory, based on a continuous principle of movement, stands out as an individual position in the history of such theories.
www.bauhaus.de /english/bauhaus1919/unterricht/unterricht_klee.htm   (416 words)

  
 Paul Klee Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
Paul Klee (1879-1940) was a Swiss painter and graphic artist of extraordinary formal inventiveness whose art combined a childlike, primary vision and the utmost sophistication.
Paul Klee was one of the great masters who established the essence and character of modern art.
Klee was born on Dec. 18, 1879, in München-Buchsee near Bern.
www.bookrags.com /biography/paul-klee   (960 words)

  
 Klee
A German citizen, Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee, near Bern, Switzerland, on December 18, 1879, and in 1898 moved to Munich, where he studied art at a private school and at the Munich Academy.
Klee often incorporated letters and numerals into his paintings, but he also produced series of works that explore mosaic and other effects.
Klee was also a master draftsman, and many of his works are elaborated line drawings with subject matter that grew out of fantasy or dream imagery; he described his technique in these drawings as taking a line for a walk.
www.mcs.csuhayward.edu /~malek/Klee.html   (570 words)

  
 Paul Klee and music
Paul Klee grew up in a musical environment, one which fostered his talent: His father Hans Klee taught music at the Hofwil teachers' college near Bern, and his mother Ida Marie Klee-Frick was a singer.
Paul Klee’s great passion was indeed opera; he was a regular at the Opera House, and a fine connoisseur of the entire repertory of classical and romantic operas.
Klee was of the belief that musical abstraction was ideally expressed in the music of Bach and Mozart, and did not require further development.
www.paulkleezentrum.ch /ww/en/pub/web_root/act/musik/paul_klee_und_die_musik.cfm   (567 words)

  
 Paul Klee - AMAM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Paul Klee's Die Paukenorgel, painted during the artist's last year at the Bauhaus in Dessau, shows the influence of French Cubism, Bauhaus Constructivism, and the work of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) and Lyonel Feininger in its monochromatic composition of crystallized forms.
With the sculptor Hermann Haller, Klee traveled in Italy between 1901 and 1902, and became engaged that same year to the pianist Lily Stumpf, whom he married in 1906; their son Felix was born in 1907.
In 1915 Klee was drafted into the German army and spent the war years at a Bavarian garrison, where he was able to create drawings and watercolors; his military duties included painting airplane wings.
www.oberlin.edu /allenart/collection/klee_paul.html   (1434 words)

  
 Peggy Guggenheim Collection - Artists - Paul Klee (1879-1940)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Paul Klee was born on December 18, 1879, in Munchenbuchsee, Switzerland, into a family of musicians.
Klee’s work was shown at the Kunstmuseum Bern in 1910 and at Heinrich Thannhauser’s Moderne Galerie in Munich in 1911.
Klee taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar from 1921 to 1926 and in Dessau from 1926 to 1931.
www.guggenheim-venice.it /english/06_artists/klee.htm   (447 words)

  
 Paul Klee
Paul Klee was a poet-writer, a musician, a philosopher, and deep and precise thinker, a sensitive observer, an innovator and a great individual standing out in the history of modem art.
Klee was born in 1879 near Bern Switzerland.
Klee places a moon to balance the cat's eyes and nose and placed the bird on the forehead of the cat; with this he has lent an air of oriental mystery to the composition.
www.people.vcu.edu /~djbromle/contemp03/alice   (943 words)

  
 SFMOMA | Exhibitions | Paul Klee   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
A gifted violinist, Klee's first aspiration was to be a musician, and he tended to associate the expressive possibilities of color with those of music.
Klee often approached the creative process in a manner reminiscent of a conductor: for instance, he used veils of muted color in Hoffmanneske Szene to create a kind of "musical" setting for the theatrical action depicted in the line drawing.
Klee's work as a whole reflects the artist's full command of color and his willingness to fully explore its compositional and thematic roles.
sfmoma.org /exhibitions/exhib_detail/00_exhib_klee_conductor.html?id=54   (395 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Paul Klee: Books: Paul Klee,Carolyn Lanchner   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Klee never ceased his quest for new subjects and sources of inspiration, and he experimented with geometry, materials, and color to represent fauna and flora, music, the diurnal, and the nocturnal.
Zentrum Paul Klee: Bern by Paul Klee $60.00
Paul Klee explored just about every art style there was in his quest to develop modern art and his seemingly simplest paintings were usually his best.
www.amazon.com /Paul-Klee/dp/0870704036   (1276 words)

  
 Neue Galerie shows Paul Klee's works - Boston.com
Paul Klee had an inordinate impact on modern art in the United States, even though he never touched foot in this country or showed any interest in American culture of the early 20th century.
Klee was a leading German-Swiss modernist whose works were branded degenerate by the Nazis.
Klee's works were branded "degenerate" by the Nazis, who forced his removal from his art-school post in Duesseldorf in 1933.
www.boston.com /ae/theater_arts/articles/2006/03/08/neue_galerie_shows_paul_klees_works   (698 words)

  
 handprint : paul klee
Klee was profoundly affected by Franz Marc's death in battle in April 1916, the same month Klee was inducted into the German army, where he painted aircraft and worked as a paymaster's clerk.
Klee moved freely between figuration and abstraction, and much of the playful quality in his works arises in his skillful flirting with the line between the two.
Klee was an extraordinary technical innovator, and much of his focus was on creating new grounds or supports that would give his paintings unusual qualities of texture and color.
www.handprint.com /HP/WCL/artist26.html   (1470 words)

  
 Paul Klee (1879–1940) | Special Topics Page | Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Klee is known for his simple stick figures, suspended fish, moon faces, eyes, arrows, and quilts of color, which he orchestrated into fantastic and childlike yet deeply meditative works.
Klee was born on December 18, 1879, in Münchenbuchsee, near Bern, Switzerland, the second child of Hans Klee, a German music teacher, and a Swiss mother.
Nearly half of Klee's some 10,000 works (mainly small-scale watercolors and drawings on paper) were produced during the ten years he taught at the Bauhaus, and they vary widely.
www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/klee/hd_klee.htm   (746 words)

  
 Paul Klee (1879 - 1940) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
Klee was condemned as a degenerate by the Nazis in 1933, and subsequently returned to Switzerland where he died in 1940.
Paul Klee - Late Works is part of an exhibition trilogy focussing on Klee (Klee in the North) which is on view not only at the Sprengel Museum Hannover, but also at the Kunsthalle Bremen and
Inspired by the surrealist artists, in particular, Max Ernst and Paul Klee, the paintings are a meditation on the randomness of fate.
wwar.com /masters/k/klee-paul.html   (1642 words)

  
 Zentrum Paul Klee
Today Paul Klee, who was also a musician, teacher and poet, ranks as one of the 20th century’s most significant artists.
The Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern, where the artist spent a half of his life, is a monument of international renown and a personal tribute to Paul Klee himself.
It is to become the leading centre of competence worldwide for research into and the mediation and presentation of Paul Klee, his life and his work, as well as the way in which his art is received.
www.paulkleezentrum.ch /ww/en/pub/web_root/zpk.cfm   (462 words)

  
 Paul Klee
Paul Klee was a Swiss painter, watercolorist, and etcher, who was one of the most original masters of modern art.
The Zentrum Paul Klee in Berne opens its doors on 20th June 2005 to art and culture lovers from all over the world.
The focus will be on Paul Klee, who is considered one of the most important artists of the 20th century.
arthistory.heindorffhus.dk /frame-Klee.htm   (712 words)

  
 Paul Klee (1879-1940), por Image & Art
Klee siguió siendo un excelente violinista hasta su muerte, aunque nunca se interesó por las corrientes musicales de vanguardia representadas por Schönberg, a quién conoció en Munich, ni por las conexiones de música y pintura tan importantes para artistas cercanos a él como Kandinsky.
Klee puso siempre por delante la dedicación a su obra respecto a la docencia, lo que acabó creándole ciertas tensiones en el seno de la Bauhaus.
Klee y su familia se refugian en Berna, pero tampoco encuentra allí grandes facilidades; la difamación nazi y cierta reputación de artista radical no le allanan el camino para obtener la nacionalidad suiza, cuyos penosos trámites aún no estaban ultimados a su muerte.
www.imageandart.com /tutoriales/biografias/paul_klee.htm   (931 words)

  
 IATWM June 2005: Paul Klee Center
Paul Klee was an accomplished musician, poet and acclaimed Bauhaus teacher as well as visual artist, and that too is reflected in the Zentrum, for it is a performance theatre as well as art museum and research center.
Paul Klee studied under Franz von Stuck at the Academy in Munich, Germany.
Klee taught at the Düsseldorf Academy but the year the Bauhaus was closed he was fired by the Nazi regime.
iatwm.com /200506/PaulKlee/index.html   (803 words)

  
 Klee, Paul : 1879 - 1940 - Bauhaus, swiss german, painting, abstract expressionism, Bauhaus, Absolutearts.com
Klee switched to watercolor and painted in a form of semiabstract color pattern based on a Cubist grid, a structure which he frequently used as a linear scaffolding for his compositions -- "Hammamet with the Mosque" (1914).
In 1920 Klee was appointed to the faculty of the Bauhaus at Weimar.
Klee's art can be subdivided into four major periods: his earliest significant landscape studies in pencil date from the 1890s and show a searching, somewhat impressionist, and talented approach - "Across the Elfenau" (1897).
www.absolutearts.com /masters/names/Klee_Paul.html   (771 words)

  
 Guggenheim Collection - Artist - Klee - Biography
Paul Klee was born on December 18, 1879, in M�nchenbuchsee, Switzerland, into a family of musicians.
Klee’s work was shown at the Kunstmuseum Bern in 1910 and at Moderne Galerie, Munich, in 1911.
Klee met Alexej Jawlensky, Vasily Kandinsky, August Macke, Franz Marc, and other avant-garde figures in 1911; he participated in important shows of advanced art, including the second Blaue Reiter exhibition at Galerie Hans Goltz, Munich, in 1912, and the Erste deutsche Herbstsalon at the Der Sturm Gallery, Berlin, in 1913.
www.guggenheimcollection.org /site/artist_bio_75.html   (430 words)

  
 Paul Klee - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Paul Klee (18 de diciembre de 1879 - 29 de junio de 1940) fue un pintor suizo cuyo estilo varía entre el surrealismo, el expresionismo y la abstracción.
Klee nació en Münchenbuchsee, cerca de Berna, Suiza, en una familia de músicos.
Klee trabajaba en óleo, acuarela, tinta y otros materiales, generalmente combinándolos en un solo trabajo.
es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Klee   (305 words)

  
 Bienal - Salas Especiais - Paul Klee
In that one as well as in the current exhibition the works exhibited belonged to the two great collections of Klee's works: the Foundation Paul Klee, that is a part of the Art Museum of Bern, and the collection of the Klee family.
With his diaries Klee was able to emphasize that which he considered had been important for his artistic progress up to then.
Paul Klee was born at MÆnchenbuchsee, near Bern, Switzerland.
www.uol.com.br /23bienal/especial/iekl.htm   (1025 words)

  
 Paul Klee prints and posters at FulcrumGallery.com
Born near Berne, Switzerland, and the son of a music teacher, Klee was encouraged to pursue a career as a violinist.
In 1911, Klee's work caught the attention of the leading avant-garde group of German Expressionists, Der Blaue Reiter, and he was invited to join their ranks and participate in their exhibitions.
At the request of Walter Gropius, Klee began teaching at the Bauhaus where his friend Kandinsky was a faculty member.
www.fulcrumgallery.com /artist_KLEE.aspx?source=GoogleAdWords&ad=KLEE   (259 words)

  
 Paul Klee 1933
The recently opened exhibition Paul Klee: 1933 is dedicated to Paul Klee’s (1879–1940) creative achievements in 1933, a year that was extremely difficult for the artist both professionally and personally.
Klee, who had commuted from Dessau to Düsseldorf for almost two years after his teaching post had been cancelled at the Bauhaus in Dessau in 1931, had only recently rented a house with his wife in Düsseldorf.
Paul Klee: 1933 will be on view at theSchirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt until 30 November 2003.
www.culturekiosque.com /art/exhibiti/paulklee.html   (1136 words)

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