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born 18 December 1879 born Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland father German music teacher Hans Wilhelm Klee (1849–1940) mother Swiss singer Ida Marie Klee, née Frick (1855–1921).
1896 My Room (German: Meine Bude), 1896. Pen and ink wash, 120 by 190 mm (4+3⁄4 by 7+1⁄2 in). In the collection of the Klee Foundation, Bern, Switzerland
Nocturnal Festivity, 1921, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
1931 to 1933 Klee taught Düsseldorf Academy (Nazi newspaper: "Then that great fellow Klee comes onto the scene, already famed as a Bauhaus teacher in Dessau. He tells everyone he's a thoroughbred Arab, but he's a typical Galician Jew."[34]
1930s Klee's home searched by Gestapo Klee fired from his job.[35][36] His self-portrait Struck from the List (1933)[34]
1921 Rainer Maria Rilke : Klee in 1921, "Even if you hadn’t told me he plays the violin, I would have guessed that on many occasions his drawings were transcriptions of music."[41]
1933 Pamela Kort observed: "Klee's 1933 drawings present their beholder with an unparalleled opportunity to glimpse a central aspect of his aesthetics that has remained largely unappreciated: his lifelong concern with the possibilities of parody and wit. Herein lies their real significance, particularly for an audience unaware that Klee's art has political dimensions."[42]
1903 and 1905 in the cycle "Inventionen" (Inventions),[44]
June 1906 at the "Internationale Kunstausstellung des Vereins bildender Künstler Münchens 'Secession'" (International Art Exhibition of the Association for Graphic Arts, Munich, Secession), his first appearance as a painter in the public.[45]
Dame mit Sonnenschirm, 1883–1885, pencil on paper on cardboard, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
1905: scratching on a blackened glass panel with a needle: 57 Verre églomisé pictures, among those the 1905 Gartenszene (Scene on a Garden) and the 1906 Porträt des Vaters (Portrait of a Father), with which he tried to combine painting and scratching.[46]
1911 Klee met and was inspired by Alfred Kubin Became associated the Blaue Reiter.[47]
29 June 1940 Died in Muralto, Locarno, Switzerland.
July 1940 Granted Swiss citizenship posthumously.
In the years 1903-5 he also completed a cycle of eleven zinc-plate etchings called Inventions, his first exhibited works, in which he illustrated several grotesque characters.[4][61]
Jardi, Enric (1991) Paul Klee, Rizzoli Intl Pubns, ISBN0-8478-1343-6
Kagan, Andrew (1993) Paul Klee at the Guggenheim Museum (exhibition catalogue) [1] Introduction by Lisa Dennison, essay by Andrew Kagan. 208 pages. English and Spanish editions. 1993, ISBN978-0-89207-106-7
Rudloff, Diether (1982). Unvollendete Schöpfung: Künstler im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert (in German). ISBN978-3-87838-368-0.
Baumgartner, Michael; Klingsöhr-Leroy, Cathrin; Schneider, Katja (2010). Franz Marc, Paul Klee: Dialog in Bildern (in German) (1st ed.). Wädenswil: Nimbus Kunst und Bücher. ISBN978-3-907142-50-9.
Giedion-Welcker, Carola (1967). Klee (in German). Reinbek: Rowohlt. ISBN978-3-499-50052-7.
Glaesemer, Jürgen; Kersten, Wolfgang; Traffelet, Ursula (1996). Paul Klee: Leben und Werk (in German). Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz. ISBN978-3-7757-0241-6.
Rümelin, Christian (2004). Paul Klee: Leben und Werk. Munich: C. H. Beck. ISBN3-406-52190-8.
1922 Beiträge zur bildnerischen Formlehre ('Contributions to a pictorial theory of form', part of his 1921-2 lectures at the Bauhaus)
1923 Wege des Naturstudiums ('Ways of Studying Nature'), 4 pages. Published in the catalogue for the Erste Bauhaus Ausstellung (First Bauhaus Exhibition) in Summer 1923. Also published in Paul Klee Notebooks vol 1.
1924 Über moderne Kunst ('On Modern Art'), lecture held at Paul Klee's exhibition at the Kunstverein in Jena on 26 January 1924
1956 Band I: Das bildnerische Denken., ('Volume I: the creative thinking'). 572 pages review. (English translation from German by Ralph Manheim: 'The thinking eye')
1964 Band 2: Unendliche Naturgeschichte ('Volume 2: Infinite Natural History') (English translation from German by Heinz Norden: 'The Nature of Nature')
1964 The Diaries of Paul Klee 1898–1918 ed. Felix Klee Berkeley, University of California
1976 Schriften, Rezensionen und Aufsätze edited by Ch. Geelhaar, Köln,
1960 Gedichte, poems, edited by Felix Klee
1962 Some poems by Paul Klee ed Anselm Hollo. London