Today's Google Doodle celebrates the 139 th birthday of Paul Klee (December 18, 1879 - June 29, 1940,) the influential Swiss-German artist.

A drawing by Swiss artist Paul Klee, who was villfied by the Nazis, who also stole his work from Jewish collectors, has finally been returned to its rightful owner by the Israel Museum.

He excelled at drawing but not proportions, and studied art in Munich, where be became involved with the irony-free Wassily Kandinsky and his band of proto-Blaue Reiter expressionists-spiritualists.

Drawing parallels between his own life and Klee’s work, Meyer called the documentary “a scleroderma awareness piece disguised as an art film.” Paul Klee, Angel Applicant (1939).

Paul Klee never visited the United States, but he played an important role in American art in the 1930s and ’40s. Exhibitions and reproductions of his work, and later translations of his ...

In 1933, Klee was forced to emigrate from Germany to Switzerland, the country of his birth, because the Nazis considered his art “degenerate” and there were rumors that he was Jewish.

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As a digital artist attuned to color and texture, William Mapan has unsurprisingly found an affinity with Paul Klee—specifically, the German-Swiss artist’s early abstraction, In the Kairouan ...

Paul Klee's "Angelus Novus" was a favorite of Walter Benjamin's — but where he saw an "Angel of History," others saw Hitler.

Paul Klee, Farbige und graphische Winkel (1917). Courtesy Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern Klee was drafted into the German army in 1916. Fortunately for him, he was not deployed to the front.