Paul Klee, part I

Rising Sun, 1907

Colorful Architecture (1917)

Rose Garden (1920)

Three Flowers, 1920

Rotating House, 1921

Siblings

Dream City, 1921

Senecio, 1922



Street In the Camp, 1923

 


Sicilian Landscape (1924)

Ancient Sound, Abstract on Black, 1925

Colourful lightning (Bunter Blitz), 1927
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany



Cat and Bird, 1928



Highways and Byways, 1929

Clown, 1929

Polyphonic Setting for White, 1930

Ad Parnassum, 1932

Equals Infinity (1932)

oil on canvas

Abstruse, 1934


Planting according to rules (Nach Regeln zu pflanzen) (1935)

Garten im Orient (1937)

pastel on cotton cloth mounted by artist on card

This Flower Wishes to Fade, 1939

Forgetful Angel (Vergesslicher Engel), 1939

Has a head, hand, foot and heart

“Everything vanishes around me, and works are born as if out of the void. Ripe, graphic fruits fall off. My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.”

Paul Klee (18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a German and a Swiss painter. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was also a student of orientalism. 

Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered color theory, and wrote extensively about it; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are considered so important for modern art that they are compared to the importance that Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting had for the Renaissance. He and his colleague, the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the German Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture. 

His works reflect his dry humour and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and also his musicality.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Klee