Paul Klee: 23 cool facts

Paul Klee (German: [paʊ̯l ˈkleː]; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist. His severely individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented subsequent to and eventually highly explored color theory, writing virtually 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 avant-garde art as Leonardo da Vinci’s A Treatise on Painting for the Renaissance. He and his colleague, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the Bauhaus instructor of art, design and architecture in Germany. His works reflect his temperate humor and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.