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KLEE Paul
(1879-1940)
"Art does not reproduce the visible, rather it makes visible"
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| 1879 |
born on December 18th 1879 in Münchenbuchsee in Switzerland |
| 1911 |
gets closer with the group of painters called Der Blaue Reiter and meets Kandinsky, Marc, Macke and Jawlensky |
| 1920 |
is called by Gropius, the founding member of the Bauhaus movement, to join and to teach at the school created in 1919 in Weimar. |
| 1930 |
teaches at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. He is then dismissed by the Nazi regime in 1933 |
| 1938 |
suffering from a serious illness, he works a lot until his death
his works are regularly exhibited in the USA and in Switzerland |
| 1940 |
died on June 29th 1940 in Locarno, Switzerland |
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