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Paul Klee · 1923
Paul Klee: 1879–1940
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Biography
Paul Klee (German: [ˈpaʊ̯l ˈkleː]; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism.
Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored color theory, writing about it extensively. His lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are held to be as important for modern art as Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting was for the Renaissance.
He and his colleague, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture in Germany. His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.
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Artworks by year
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Paul Klee. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art92 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago87 recorded works
- National Gallery of Art38 recorded works
- Museum of Modern Art14 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art8 recorded works
- Fondation Beyeler6 recorded works
- musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg — Strasbourg6 recorded works
- Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe2 recorded works
- Albertina1 recorded work
- Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation, Athens1 recorded work
- Kunstmuseum Bern1 recorded work
- Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen1 recorded work
- Minneapolis Institute of Art1 recorded work
- Musée de Grenoble1 recorded work
- musée d'Unterlinden — Colmar1 recorded work
- Museum Ludwig1 recorded work
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum1 recorded work
- Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany1 recorded work
- Städel Museum1 recorded work
- Statens Museum for Kunst (SMK)1 recorded work
- Tate1 recorded work
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- National Gallery of Art
- Painter cultural affiliation distinguished from recorded birthplace
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- SMK: exact creator authority reconciliation
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- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Austrian museum collections: independent authority research
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