BIOGRAPHY

 

 

 

1879:	On 18 December, Paul Klee is born near Bern, Switzerland.
1886:	Klee begins primary school in Bern.
1898:	Klee moves to Munich to study painting.
1900:	Klee attends Munich Academy.  He studies under Franz von Stuck.
1901:	Klee travels to Italy.
1902:	Klee returns to Munich.
1905:	Klee travels to Paris where he sees the works of great artists.
1906:	Klee marries Lily Stumpf.  Klee exhibits in Munich.
1907:	The couple’s only son Felix is born.
1909-10:	Klee exhibits in Bern, Zurich, Winterthur and Basel.
1911:	Klee meets Kandinsky, Marc and Macke.  He joins Der Blaue Reiter and is influenced by Cubism.
1912:	Klee visit Paris again.  He meets Delauney and is influenced by works of Picasso, Braque, Rousseau and Matisse.
1913:	Klee’s translation of Delauney’s essay On Light is published.
1914:	Klee travels to Tunisia.
1916:	Klee drafted into the military. He paints very little.
1920:	A major retrospective of his works in Munich.  He is invited to teach at the Bauhaus, which was then in Weimar.
1922:	Klee oantings are exposed in Berlin and Wiesbaden.
1924:	First American exposition of Klee works.
1926:	Klee moves with his family so as to teach at the Bauhaus in Dessau.
1929:	Klee works exhibited in Paris, Dresden, and Berlin.
1931:	Klee resigns from the Bauhaus, then teaches at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts.
1933:	Klee’s work among those called “degenerate” by the Nazis.  He is dismissed from the Academy. The Klees return to Bern where they live at his parents’ house.
1934:	Klee works exhibited in London, the first time in England.
1935:	A Klee retrospective exhibition in Bern and Basel. Klee falls seriously ill with what is later diagnosed as scleroderma.  His art style changes as he uses thick black lines.
1937:	Seventeen of the Klee’s works confiscated by the Nazis are included in an exhibit of “Degenerate Art.”
1940:	A large exhibition of Klee works in Zurich. Klee dies on 29 June in Muralto-Locarno, Switzerland. Commemorative exhibitions are held in Bern, New York and Basel.