Thus said Paul Klee (1879-1940) in a lecture on modern art in 1924. It is an entirely accurate description of his own work, drawing as it does on dream and nightmare, fairytales and apocalyptic ...

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).

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

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.

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 ...

Appraisal: Cartier Art Deco Coral & Diamond Lapel Clips Clip: S21 Ep8 | 47s Appraisal: French China Mantel Clock, ca. 1900 Clip: S21 Ep8 | 2m 50s Appraisal: Hermès Steamer Trunk, ca. 1910 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

Art World ’26 Years Is Too Long!’: Settlement Finally Reached in Battle Over Paul Klee From Nazi ‘Degenerate Art’ Show The case is Germany's longest-running legal battle over Nazi-looted art.