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Paul Klee

Paul Klee was a Swiss artist born on December 18, 1879. Klee worked in Germany and died on June 29, 1940. Get notified when Paul Klee's biography is complete:

Art does not reproduce the visible but makes visible.

The artist is himself nature and a part of nature in natural space

Ways to Study Nature

1923

Astrological Fantasy Portrait

1924

May Picture

1925

Bird Wandering Off

1926

'What is this shocking anomaly you are producing?'

Exact Experiments in the Realm of Art

1928

Athlete's Head

1932

One Who Understands

1934

The Rhine at Duisburg

1937

1801 2000

The life behind the line

Anne Estelle Rice

"Art does not need us, and it never did"

Kazimir Malevich Paul Klee

They're marionettes. That's what they are

Richard Teschner

Hans Hofmann

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