influence of Friedrich Froebel Paul Klee 1879-1940 "Color has
taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it, I
know that it has hold of me forever. That is the significance of
this blessed moment. Color and I are one. I am a painter." Paul
Klee Swiss-born German artist Paul Klee (1879-1940) defies
facile categorization. His ability to perpetuate the legacy of
nineteenth-century Romanticism using an entirely new, thoroughly
modern visual language set him apart from both his predecessors
and his contemporaries. While his pictures demonstrate a
distinct indebtedness to Realism and modern abstraction, the
major themes of Romanticism (the sentimental, the heroic, the
sublime, the fantastic, the naïf, the exotic, the occult, and
the grotesque, to name a few) all exist within his imaginary
worlds. Like many Romantics before him, Klee equated the
artistic expression of transcendental forces with the act of
heavenly creation. Klee believed an artist could reveal the
mysteries of the cosmos through the