Klee Author:Paul Klee, Marcel Marnat Paul Klee was born two years before Picasso and died in June, 1940, when Europe was already gripped by the horror and agony of war. His death went unnoticed and yet with him died one of the greatest masters of modern art. — A subtle theoretician, Klee was an extraordinary inventor of signs and forms who was gifted with that dazzling precisi... more »on that is the mark of a poet. He ruled over the magic kingdom of dreams like a master and moved in it with the same ease and familiarity that children and primitives have. This probably explains why for a long time his works failed to be understood by the French public because in them are fused together, in an alliance as rare as it is indispensable, mystery and mathematics, imagination and the most minute sense of reality, humor and seriousness.
From 1920 to 1931 Klee taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau. He was an impassioned teacher and his theoretical writings are a foundation upon which much of modern art is based. His vision is best defined in his own words: "Art does not imitate reality; it reveals reality."
In fact, a picture by Klee is an enchanted place where, if one knows how to see, metamorphoses are constantly occurring. In it blossoms the most poetic, free fantasy that has ever been given birth to by a painter.« less