| − | '''Paul Klee''' (1879 - 1940) was a [[Swiss]] [[Expressionist]] [[painter]], graphic artist, and [[art]] theorist of [[Jewish]] ancestry. He was a prolific artist with more than 10,000 paintings, drawings, and etchings. His style went from expressionism to [[cubism]], to [[surrealism]]. Klee studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in [[Munich]]. He was an orientalist; his first pure abstract was ''In the Style of Kairouan'', (1914). Klee was friend of the Russian painter [[Wassily Kandinsky]]. | + | '''Paul Klee''' (Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, 1879 - Berne, 1940) was a [[Swiss]] [[Expressionist]] [[painter]], graphic artist, and [[art]] theorist of [[Jewish]] ancestry. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in [[Munich]]. Klee was friend of the Russian painter [[Wassily Kandinsky]]. He wrote ''Pedagogical Sketchbook''. |
| | + | Klee was a prolific artist with more than 10,000 paintings, drawings, and etchings. His style went from expressionism to [[cubism]], to [[surrealism]]. He was an orientalist; his first pure abstract was ''In the Style of Kairouan'', (1914). Other works included ''Southern (Tunisian) Gardens'', (1919), ''The Twittering Machine'', (1922) and ''Fish Magic'', (1925). |