Born: 18 December 1879; Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland Died: 29
June 1940; Muralto, Locarno, Switzerland Paul Klee’s was a Swiss
born painter, with a unique style that was influenced by
expressionism, cubism, surrealism, and orientalism. His written
collections of lectures, Writings on Form and Design Theory are
considered as important to modern art as Leonardo da Vinci’s
written works were to the Renaissance. As a child, Klee was
mainly oriented as a musician, having played the violin since he
was eight, but in his teen years, he found that art allowed him
freedom to explore his style and express his radical ideas.
Although Klee is now considered a master of color theory, he
spent a long time in his search for his sense of color. At
first, Klee drew in black and white, saying he would never be a
painter. But as an adult, after a visit to Tunisia, in which he
was impressed by the quality of light, he had found his sense of
color and began experimenting with his newfound decision to be a
painter. Klee spent much