PAUL KLEE
Paul Klee
1879 Münchenbuchsee/Bern – 1940 Muralto
Paul Klee was a German painter and graphic artist who was awarded Swiss citizenship posthumously. He is regarded as one of the most important visual artists and theorists of the 20th century.
Exhibitions
5. April – 30. Mai 2016
Paul Klee
Arbeiten von 1904 bis 1940
The painter, draftsman and graphic artist Paul Klee, who was also a Bauhaus teacher in Weimar and Dessau, an academy professor in Düsseldorf, a co-founder and member of the “Munich Secession and a member of the “Blue Four”, has been given his own center in Bern, his home, which contains a good 4,000 works. There are other large collections of his works in numerous places in Switzerland, Germany and the USA. “An oeuvre of a very large span, through the whole elementary, representational, content and stylistic field” , so Paul Klee once spoke about his own work in 1924.