Creator story
Surprising fact
A trained violinist, Klee often listened to Bach and Mozart while painting and built his pictures like musical compositions.
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Paul Klee
Paul Klee (1879–1940) was a Swiss-German modernist of extraordinary invention, who fused colour, line and music into small, poetic worlds. A Bauhaus teacher, he wrote that drawing is taking a line for a walk.
Klee's playful, deeply original visual language influenced abstraction, Surrealism and modern art teaching.
- A Bauhaus master of colour, line and poetic invention.
- Said drawing is taking a line for a walk.
- Bridged abstraction, Surrealism and music in his art.
Key works
A key work by Paul Klee
These works make it easiest to see how the artist changed form, content, and the very way art could exist in culture.
1922
Senecio (Head of a Man)
Senecio (Head of a Man) is one of Paul Klee's defining works.