As the second child of the music teacher Hans Wilhelm Klee and the singer Ida Klee, Paul Klee grew up practically with music. He already played the violin as a child and made public appearances as an eleven-year-old. But even more than music, the young Paul Klee was fascinated by writing and above all by drawing. He scribbled caricatures in his school notebooks and drew many motifs from his homeland. Although his parents were determined to see him trained as a musician, Klee resisted this wish and finally managed to get permission to go to Munich to study art after his school-leaving examination. He was taught the art of etching and etching by the well-known painter and graphic artist Walter Ziegler and painting by Franz von Stuck. His studies, however, interested him rather marginally, he enjoyed the free student life with all its temptations to the fullest. During a six-month study trip through Italy, Klee fell in love with Italian art, its lightness and colourfulness, its pleasing proportions and artistic construction. On returning from the trip, he continued his studies, attended anatomy courses and learned copperplate engraving. During this time he created ten etchings which formed the cycle "Inventions". Paul Klee also worked as a musician.
At the age of 27, the artist married the pianist Lilly Stumpf and moved to Munich, where his only son Felix was born a year later. The Munich years were formative for his further development. He met the Austrian graphic artist and book illustrator Alfed Kubin, as well as the painters August Macke and Wassily Kandinsky. With the latter he was connected by a close friendship. In addition, he became a founding member and managing director of the Munich artist association Sema and a member of the artists' association "Der blaue Reiter".
Paul Klee's second creative period as a painter did not begin until 1914, before which he was best known as a graphic artist. On a tour of Tunisia, which he made together with August Macke and Louis Moillet, he wrote in his diary: "The color has me. I do not need to rush after it. It has me forever, I know that. That is the meaning of the happy hour: I and the colour are one. I am a painter." On the trip he painted the famous watercolours "View of Kairuan" and "Vue de Saint German". Klee continued to paint as a soldier in World War I, where he was spared from the front as a scribe. After the war, the first art exhibition with 371 works by the artist opened in Munich in 1920. It was followed by many others, including international ones in Paris and New York. Paul Klee became one of the greatest German painters and graphic artists of Expressionism, Constructivism and Surrealism. He was also active in teaching. He taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau and was professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy.
As the second child of the music teacher Hans Wilhelm Klee and the singer Ida Klee, Paul Klee grew up practically with music. He already played the violin as a child and made public appearances as an eleven-year-old. But even more than music, the young Paul Klee was fascinated by writing and above all by drawing. He scribbled caricatures in his school notebooks and drew many motifs from his homeland. Although his parents were determined to see him trained as a musician, Klee resisted this wish and finally managed to get permission to go to Munich to study art after his school-leaving examination. He was taught the art of etching and etching by the well-known painter and graphic artist Walter Ziegler and painting by Franz von Stuck. His studies, however, interested him rather marginally, he enjoyed the free student life with all its temptations to the fullest. During a six-month study trip through Italy, Klee fell in love with Italian art, its lightness and colourfulness, its pleasing proportions and artistic construction. On returning from the trip, he continued his studies, attended anatomy courses and learned copperplate engraving. During this time he created ten etchings which formed the cycle "Inventions". Paul Klee also worked as a musician.
At the age of 27, the artist married the pianist Lilly Stumpf and moved to Munich, where his only son Felix was born a year later. The Munich years were formative for his further development. He met the Austrian graphic artist and book illustrator Alfed Kubin, as well as the painters August Macke and Wassily Kandinsky. With the latter he was connected by a close friendship. In addition, he became a founding member and managing director of the Munich artist association Sema and a member of the artists' association "Der blaue Reiter".
Paul Klee's second creative period as a painter did not begin until 1914, before which he was best known as a graphic artist. On a tour of Tunisia, which he made together with August Macke and Louis Moillet, he wrote in his diary: "The color has me. I do not need to rush after it. It has me forever, I know that. That is the meaning of the happy hour: I and the colour are one. I am a painter." On the trip he painted the famous watercolours "View of Kairuan" and "Vue de Saint German". Klee continued to paint as a soldier in World War I, where he was spared from the front as a scribe. After the war, the first art exhibition with 371 works by the artist opened in Munich in 1920. It was followed by many others, including international ones in Paris and New York. Paul Klee became one of the greatest German painters and graphic artists of Expressionism, Constructivism and Surrealism. He was also active in teaching. He taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau and was professor at the Düsseldorf Art Academy.
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