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Paul Klee (December 18, 1879 – June 29, 1940) was a Swiss painter of German nationality. He was influenced by many different art styles in his work, including expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was a student of orientalism. He and his friend, the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, were also famous for teaching at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture. Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee (near Bern), Switzerland, into a musical family—his father, Hans Klee, was a German music teacher... full article at wikipedia

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Dec 18, 1879

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Münchenbuchsee

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employer	title	from	to
Kunstakademie Düsseldorf	Professor	1931	1933
Bauhaus	Professor
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Genius sits in a glass house -- but in an unbreakable one --conceiving ideas. After giving birth, it falls into madness. Stretches out its hand through the window toward the first person happening by. The demon's claw rips, the iron fist grips. Before, you were a model, mocks the ironic voice between serrated teeth, for me, you are raw material to work on. I throw you against the glass wall, so that you remain stuck there, projected and stuck. (Then come the lovers of art and contemplate the bleeding work from outside. Then come the photographers. New art, it says in the newspaper the following day. The learned journals give it a name that ends in ism.)

Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence.

Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.

In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better.

One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

He has found his style, when he cannot do otherwise.

The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions.

When looking at any significant work of art, remember that a more significant one probably has had to be sacrificed.

Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.

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Jun 29, 1940

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Scleroderma

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Angelus Novus

A Young Lady's Adventure

Comedy

They're Biting

Ausl√∂schendes Licht (Extinguishing Light)

Garten der Leidenschaft (Garden of Passion)

Esel (Donkey)

Fragmente (Fragments)

Der Verliebte (Man in Love)

Fast getroffen (Nearly Hit)

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Wassily Kandinsky
Alexej von Jawlensky
Lyonel Feininger
August Macke
Louis Moilliet
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