Self-Portrait (detail) - Paul Klee
Born: 18 December 1879; Munchenbuchsee , Switzerland Modern geography
Death: 29 June 1940; Muralto , Switzerland Modern geography
Active years: 1903 - 1940
Art form: Painting , Decorative Arts
Art Movement: Expressionism , Surrealism , Abstract Art
Style: Expressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, Abstract Art, Abstract Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism
Influenced by: Robert Delaunay, Franz Marc, Edvard Munch
Influenced on: Manuel Cargaleiro, Jean Dubuffet, Karl Otto Gotz, Nasreen Mohamedi, Dieter Roth
Art group: Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) , Bauhaus , Degenerate art (exhibition, held by the Nazis in Munich in 1937, named to inflame public opinion against modernism)
Art institution: Akademie der Bildenden Künste München (Munich Academy), Munich, Germany , Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Friends: Josef Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, August Macke, Vadym Meller
Wikipedia article:
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