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  1. Born
    Dec 18, 1879Münchenbuchsee
    Died
    Jun 29, 1940Muralto
    Paul Klee and His Artistic Influences
    Paul Klee and His Artistic Influences
    Paul Klee was a Swiss-born German artist who lived from 1879 to 1940. He was a master of color and form, and his style was influenced by many artistic movements.
    Early life and training

    First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.— Paul Klee
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    Marriage and early years

    Klee married Bavarian pianist Lily Stumpf in 1906 and they had one son named Felix Paul in the following year. They lived in a suburb of Munich, and while she gave piano lessons and occasional performanc… See more

    Mature career

    In 1919 Klee applied for a teaching post at the Academy of Art in Stuttgart, but the attempt failed. After that he managed to secure a three-year contract, with a minimum annual income, with dealer Hans Goltz, … See more

    Death

    In 1935, two years after moving to Switzerland and working in a very confined situation, Klee developed scleroderma, an autoimmune disease resulting in hardening of connective tissue.
    He endure… See more

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