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.

Closing Soon: Paul Klee’s Psychic Improvisations at David Zwirner Gallery The show, which presents second-order works on paper, will satisfy some Klee fans but leave others wanting.

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).

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Zeichnung zu KN der Schmid (Drawing for KN the Blacksmith), 1922 pencil on paper laid down on the artist's mount Works on Paper sheet: 8 5/8 x 11 3/8 in. (22 x 28.8 cm.) mount: 10 1/8 x 12 3/8 in. (25 ...

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, 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.