Paul Klee
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.
True Orientalist from the earliest years of his artistic life, Paul Klee profoundly altered his color palette, compositional approach to space, graphic symbolism, and dexterous architectural translation of three dimensions into two; a fundamental visual iconography that would persist and metamorphose, perpetually reinventing itself throughout his prolific, but tragically abbreviated career. [1]
Ad Parnassum
Klee was also a violinist; at age seven, he started playing music. Klee died, painfully, at age 61 of the rare skin hardening disease, Scleroderma. Ibidem