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10 unusual facts about Paul Klee


Die Tunisreise

The former was done by Paul Klee, whose work was considerably influenced by his journey to Tunis, Tunisia, in 1914.

Ensemble Sortisatio

The work after Paul Klee was first performed by the Ensemble in Germany and Switzerland.

Ernst Neufert

In 1923 he met the painter Alice Spies-Neufert, a student of the Bauhaus masters Georg Muche and Paul Klee, and married her in 1924.

Forty Stories

One story involves a World War I Secret Police investigator, a trio of German warplanes, and the artist Paul Klee.

Giselher Klebe

 7, (The Twittering Machine), based on the well-known painting by Paul Klee.

McMullen Museum of Art

The McMullen Museum of Art reopen for its fall 2012 season with the exhibition "Paul Klee: Philosophical Vision; From Nature to Art".

Niesen

The Niesen was the subject of a number of paintings by Paul Klee, in which it was represented as a quasi-pyramid.

Rachel Jordan

She describes these abstracts as suggestive of "cellular life", citing influences from Paul Klee and Edward Hopper, as well as Roman mosaics, Islamic patterns, Egyptian hieroglyphics and the shapes revealed in aerial photography.

Thüring Bräm

As a guest composer, he worked variously at the Hokuto International Music Festival and with the Swiss Groupe Lacroix and the German Ensemble Sortisatio on a CD called “8 Pieces on Paul Klee” in honor to the painter Paul Klee.

Wulf Barsch

He studied under Bauhaus Masters, who were themselves Master Students of Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky.


Alfred Jensen

For the next 34 years, she was a patron of his work, and he accompanied her in extensive travels, together studying the masters throughout Europe and collecting works by artists such as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Theo van Doesburg, William Baziotes, Jackson Pollock, Robert Motherwell, Naum Gabo and Fritz Glarner.

Antón Lamazares

As his creative vocation began to shift from poetry toward painting, he undertook lengthy travels throughout Europe (1972) to study in person work by the masters he revered, including, Paul Klee, Rembrandt and Joan Miró, to whom would be added Antoni Tàpies, Manuel Millares, Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon, as well as Medieval art and the Art of Oceania.

Claire Zeisler

In the 1930s she bought works by Paul Klee, Joan Miró, Henry Moore, and Picasso, and as well as tribal objects including African sculptures, tantric art, ancient Peruvian textiles and more than 300 American Indian baskets.

Flemish painting

Although James Ensor stood apart from his contemporaries, this innovator in 19th-century art significantly influenced such 20th-century artists as Paul Klee, Emil Nolde, George Grosz, Alfred Kubin, Wols, Felix Nussbaum, and other expressionist and surrealist painters of the 20th century.

Hildebrand Gurlitt

A collection of his letters shows that he was personally well acquainted with modern artists at the time, and he acquired and exhibited works by many of them, including Barlach, Feininger, Hofer, Kandinsky, Kirchner, Klee, Kokoschka, Lissitzky, Marc, and Munch.

Jason Wright Wingate

Notable works include the chamber work Landscapes of Consciousness, and the Symphony No. 2: Kleetüden; Variationen für Orchester nach Paul Klee (Variations for Orchestra after Paul Klee), as well as a transcription of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition for orchestra, chorus and organ.

Jorge Blanco

Blanco's early works were influenced by his teachers Gertrude Goldschmidt (Gego) and Cornelis Zitman and by the work of artists such as Auguste Herbin, Paul Klee and Joan Miró.

Kölnischer Kunstverein

In the 20th Century, the Kölnischer Kunstverein held exhibitions of works by Hans Arp in 1919, Paul Klee in 1932, and Fluxus artists in the 1970s.

Kunsthalle Bern

The Kunsthalle gained international renown with expositions by artists such as Paul Klee, Christo, Alberto Giacometti, Henry Moore, Jasper Johns, Sol LeWitt, Gregor Schneider, Bruce Nauman and Daniel Buren, and with thematic expositions such as Harald Szeemann's When Attitudes Become Form (1969).

Lucretia Van Horn

For four years (1928–32), she and her husband lived in Berkeley, California where she joined various art leagues and worked with prominent artists in the Bay Area, including John Emmett Gerrity, David Park and Galka Scheyer who represented The Blue Four: European abstractionists, Feininger, Kandinsky, Jawlensky and Klee.

Moi Ver

In his early 20s he matriculated at the Bauhaus, taking courses with Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Josef Albers, and left from there to attend the Ecole Photo One in Paris.

Robert Hudson Tannahill

His collection focused on 19th- and 20th-century artists including Paul Cézanne, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Juan Gris, Paul Klee, John Marin, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Claude Monet, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Georges Rouault and Georges Seurat.

Roger Kimball

In a series of essays and reviews, he touches on numerous subjects including minimalism, the Barnes Foundation, and the Whitney Museum of American Art and examines artists including Vincent van Gogh, Edward Burne-Jones, Gustave Moreau, Picasso, Renoir, Matisse, Paul Klee.

Scottie Wilson

A few months after his arrival he was persuaded by dealers to show in galleries, and had a solo exhibition at the Arcade Gallery in London, shown concurrently with other works by such 20th century artists as Pablo Picasso, Giorgio de Chirico, Paul Klee, Joan Miró, amongst others.

Symphony No. 2: Kleetüden

The Symphony No. 2: Kleetüden; Variationen für Orchester nach Paul Klee (Variations for Orchestra after Paul Klee) by Jason Wright Wingate was completed in 2009 and consists of 27 movements, each depicting a painting or drawing by Paul Klee.

Toru Iwaya

During this period, he was influenced by many artists famous throughout Europe at that time, such as Paul Klee, Odilon Redon, Marc Chagall and Joan Miró.

Wilhelm Ostwald

His work in color theory was influenced by that of Albert Henry Munsell, and in turn influenced Paul Klee and members of De Stijl, including Piet Mondrian.

Yvette Cauquil-Prince

She is best known for her association with the artist Marc Chagall, which resulted in over 40 tapestries, but she also created tapestries of art works by Pablo Picasso, Max Ernst, Roberto Matta, Paul Klee, Fernand Léger, Wassily Kandinsky, Brassai, Alexander Calder, Niki de Saint Phalle, and others.