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Crystal Gradation, 1921
 
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Around the Fish, 1926
 
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Fire in the Evening, 1929
 
* Highways and Byways, 1929
 
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Fortress and Sun, 1932
 
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Sign in Yellow, 1935
 
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After the Flood, 1936
 
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Untitled (The Prisoner), 1940

Paul Klee (German pronunciation: [ˈkleː]; 18 December 1879 –29 June 1940) was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a German and a Swiss[a] painter. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was also a student of orientalism.[1] Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered colour theory, and wrote extensively about it; hislectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are considered so important for modern art that they are compared to the importance that Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Paintinghad for Renaissance.[2][3][4] He and his colleague, the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the German Bauhaus school ofart, design and architecture. His works reflect his dry humour and
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Flower Myth (1918), Watercolor on pastel foundation on fabric and newsprint mounted on board, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Klee married Bavarian pianist Lily Stumpf in 1906 and they had one son named Felix Paul in the following year. They lived in a suburb of Munich, and while she gave piano lessons and occasionalperformances, he kept house and tended to his art work. His attempt to be a magazine illustrator failed.[21] Klee’s art work progressed slowly for the next five years, partly from having to divide his time with domestic matters, and partly as he tried to find a new approach to his art. In 1910, he had his first solo exhibition in Bern, which then traveled to three Swiss cities.
With HeinzBerggruen's gift of ninety works by Paul Klee spanning the artist's entire career, the Metropolitan Museum has become an important center for the study of this German artist. Klee is known for his simple stick figures, suspended fish, moon faces, eyes, arrows, and quilts of color, which he orchestrated into fantastic and childlike yet deeply meditative works. 

Klee was born on December 18, 1879, inMünchenbuchsee, near Bern, Switzerland, the second child of Hans Klee, a German music teacher, and a Swiss mother. His training as a painter began in 1898 when he studied drawing and painting in Munich for three years. By 1911, he had returned to that city, where he became involved with the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), founded by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc in1911. Klee and Kandinsky became lifelong friends, and the support of the older painter provided much-needed encouragement. Until then, Klee had worked in relative isolation, experimenting with various styles and media, such as making caricatures and Symbolist drawings, and later producing small works on paper mainly in black and white. His work was also influenced by the Cubism of Pablo Picasso andGeorges Braque, and the abstract translucent color planes of Robert Delaunay.

In 1914, Klee visited Tunisia. The experience was the turning point in his life and career.
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In 1914, Klee visited Tunisia. The experience was the turning point in his life and career. The limpid lightof North Africa awakened his sense of color. During his stay, Klee gradually detached color from physical description and used it independently, which gave him the final needed push toward abstraction. The view of the mosque in Hammamet with Its Mosque (1914; 1984.315.4) demonstrates Klee's path toward abstraction. By 1915, he had turned his back to nature and never again painted after the...