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 Paul Klee
 Paul Klee
 Paul Klee
  Paul Klee was born in Munchenbuchsee, near Bern, Switzerland, into a musical family. He studied art in Munich with Heinrich Knirr and Franz von Stuck. After travelling to Italy and then back to Bern, he settled in Munich, where he met Vasily Kandinsky, Hans Marc and other avant-garde figures, and became associated with the Blaue Reiter. In 1914, he visited Tunisia and was impressed by the quality of the light there, writing "Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it, I know that it has hold of me forever ...  
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  Temple Gardens,
1920
Klee visited Tunisia and discovered colour: "Colour 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. Colour and I are one. I am a painter."

Red Balloon (Roter Ballon).
1922
This half-abstract, half-representational scene was created just one year before Klee started creating purely abstract art. Poised above this charming cityscape, a red balloon is detached from the rest of the composition, extending the overall visual sensation of drifting lightness and freedom of movement. In the Red Balloon, Klee may have used a special oil transfer drawing technique he developed in an effort to create the misty texture of his lithographs, in his paintings. He brushed a thinned oil paint onto one side of a piece of paper, then like making a carbon copy, he drew on the back of the painted sheet with a pen or stylus. The resulting lines have a feathered, smudged quality. (source: Guggenheim Museum)

Steam Engine and Sailing Boat.
1931
"In the final analysis, a drawing simply is no longer a drawing, no matter how self-sufficient its execution may be. It is a symbol, and the more profoundly the imaginary lines of projection meet higher dimensions, the better." (Paul Klee) "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)

Ad Parnassum.
1932
From 1923 Klee created a series of imaginative color constructions which he called 'magic squares' in which he applied his theories. This series came to a conclusion in 1932 with Ad Parnassum. The graphic element illustrates the gate to Mount Parnassus, the home of Apollo and the Muses, and also may refer to the Pyramids which Klee saw in 1928, and to a mountain near Klee's home.

Legend of the Nile.
1937
Paul Klee loved the art of children. He admired their freedom to deal so directly dealing with colours and forms without any formal distractions. " Do not laugh, reader! Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in their having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us...." he said. He liked to approach painting with the innocent spirit of a child.