Paul Klee was a Swiss painter born on 18 December 1879 in Munchenbuchsee, Switzerland. Klee, favoring his interest in drawing and painting over music, decided to pursue an art career. From 1900, he studied in the atelier of Franz Von Stuck in Munich. However, Klee’s involvement with modern art did not begin till 1911 after involving with Der Blaue Reiter.
Klee started his experimentation with abstract art after participating in the 1912 edition of the Blaue Reiter exhibition. He switched to painting watercolor landscapes after his trip to Tunisia with Louis Moilliet and August Macke in 1914. Klee started teaching art in 1920 and continued for the next decade. He suffered an autoimmune disease in 1935 that briefly limited his output before his death on 29 June 1940 in Locarno, Switzerland.
What was Paul Klee Known For?
Paul Klee was known for his oil and watercolor paintings of abstractions and landscapes. Seeing the works of avant-garde artists such as Delaunay, Picasso, and Braque motivated Klee to experiment with abstractions. He eventually settled on the style after infusing a lush of colors that he previously ignored.
Who was Paul Klee Influenced By?
Abstract artists such as Robert Delaunay, Georges Braque, and Pablo Picasso influenced Paul Klee’s style. A trip to Tunisia compelled Klee to use bright colors in his artworks, a feature that distinguished him from other artists. Primarily, the still-life works of cubists influenced Klee’s first foray into painting abstractions, a medium he eventually mastered.
What Art Movement was Paul Klee Associated With?
Paul Klee was associated with the Cubism art movement. In the early 1900s, during the emergence of modern art, Cubism was popularized by famous proponents like Picasso and Braque.
Paul Klee Artwork
In 1939, Klee created over one thousand artworks, a record number. Below are some of his artworks
Black Knight
Castle and Sun
Cat and Bird
Death for the Idea
Fish Magic
Flora on Sand
Flower Myth
Highway and byways
Miraculous Landing
Puppet theater
Rock Chamber
Senecio
Separation in the Evening
Southern (Tunisian) Gardens
Struck from the List
Temple Garden
The Goldfish
Twittering Machine
All Paul Klee Artwork on Artchive
| Artwork Name |
Year |
Medium |
| Blue bird pumpkin |
1939 |
|
| Boats in the Flood |
1937 |
|
| Botanical Theater |
1924 |
oil,watercolor,board |
| Cacodemonic |
1916 |
|
| Castle and Sun |
1928 |
oil |
| Castle Garden |
1931 |
|
| Cat and Bird |
1928 |
oil,canvas |
| Characters in yellow |
1937 |
|
| Child and aunt |
1940 |
|
| Chinese porcelain |
1940 |
|
| Portrait of a Man |
1925 |
oil,board |
| Possessed girl |
1924 |
|
| Promenade in the Orient |
1932 |
watercolor,paper |
| Puppet theater |
1923 |
watercolor |
| Ravaged land |
1921 |
|
| Reconstructing |
1926 |
oil |
| Red Balloon |
1922 |
chalk,oil |
| Red waistcoat |
1938 |
|
| Revolution of the Viaduct |
1937 |
oil,cotton |
| Revolving House |
1921 |
oil |
| Chosen Site |
1940 |
|
| City of Churches |
1918 |
pen,pencil,watercolor,paper |
| City Picture with Red and Green Accents |
1921 |
|
| Clouds over Bor |
1940 |
|
| The rumors |
1939 |
watercolor,paper |
| Comedians' Handbill |
1938 |
gouache,cardboard |
| Coming to bloom |
1934 |
|
| Contemplation |
1938 |
|
| Cosmic Composition |
1919 |
oil,board |
| Cote de provence |
1927 |
|
| Rhythmic (Rythmical) |
1930 |
oil,canvas |
| Rising Star |
1923 |
|
| Angel Still Feminine |
1939 |
|
| Rock Chamber |
1929 |
aquatint |
| Rope dancer |
1923 |
|
| Senecio |
1922 |
oil,canvas |
| Separation in the Evening |
1922 |
watercolor |
| Seventeen |
1923 |
watercolor,paper |
| Siblings |
1930 |
oil,canvas |
| Side Panels for 'Anatomy of Aphrodite' |
1915 |
|
| Crystal Gradation |
1921 |
watercolor |
| Crystalline Landscape |
1929 |
watercolor,cardboard |
| Death for the Idea |
1915 |
lithography |
| Destroyed place |
1920 |
oil,paper |
| Diana in the Autumn Wind |
1921 |
|
| Dieser Stern lehrt beugen |
1940 |
|
| Enlightenment of Two Sectarians |
1918 |
|
| Error on green |
1939 |
|
| Evening shows |
1935 |
|
| Fairy tale of the Dwarf |
1925 |
watercolor,cardboard |
| Six species |
1921 |
|
| Small Landscape with the village church |
1925 |
|
| Small room in Venice |
1933 |
|
| Sparse foliage |
1934 |
gouache,oil,watercolor,paper |
| Stage Landscape |
1922 |
|
| Station L 112 |
1923 |
watercolor,paper |
| Still Life with Dove |
1931 |
|
| Still Life with Thistle Bloom |
1919 |
oil,cardboard |
| Strong Dream |
1929 |
gouache,watercolor,paper |
| Struck from the List |
1933 |
|
| Fire evening |
1929 |
oil,board |
| Fire, Full Moon |
1933 |
oil,canvas |
| Fish Image |
1925 |
mixed technique,cardboard |
| Fish Magic |
1925 |
panel |
| Flora on rocks Sun |
1940 |
|
| Flora on sand |
1927 |
|
| Flower myth |
1918 |
|
| Flowers in Stone |
1939 |
|
| Head of a child |
1939 |
watercolor,paper |
| Forest Witches |
1938 |
|
| Structural II |
1924 |
gouache,paper |
| Summer houses |
1919 |
watercolor,paper |
| Swamp legend |
1919 |
|
| Tale of Hoffmann |
1925 |
watercolor,ink |
| Temple Gardens |
1920 |
gouache,ink,paper |
| The Chapel |
1917 |
|
| The column |
1926 |
|
| The Future Man |
1933 |
watercolor |
| The Lamb |
1920 |
|
| The last of the mercenaries |
1931 |
watercolor,paper |
| Fruits on Red |
1930 |
watercolor |
| Full moon |
1919 |
|
| Garden Figure |
1940 |
oil,canvas |
| Gauze |
1940 |
|
| Ghost of a Genius |
1922 |
|
| Glass Facade |
1940 |
|
| Growth of the night plants |
1922 |
oil,cardboard |
| Groynes |
1925 |
pen,ink,watercolor,board |
| Foehn Wind in Marc's Garden |
1915 |
|
| Halme |
1940 |
|
| The Light and So Much Else |
1931 |
|
| The lover |
1938 |
|
| The Mask with the Little Flag |
1925 |
watercolor |
| The messenger of autumn |
1922 |
|
| The place of the twins |
1929 |
|
| The rumors |
1939 |
|
| The Saint of Inner Light |
1921 |
lithography |
| Flowers in Stone |
1939 |
watercolor |
| The singer L as Fioridigli |
1923 |
|
| The Travelling Circus |
c.1940 |
lithography |
| This flower wishes to fade |
1939 |
|
| Death and fire |
1940 |
|
| After annealing |
1940 |
|
| Harbour with sailing ships |
1937 |
oil,canvas |
| Head of a child |
1939 |
|
| Heroic Fiddling |
1938 |
|
| Heroic Roses |
1938 |
oil,canvas |
| An allegory of propaganda |
1939 |
|
| Historic ground |
1939 |
oil,paper |
| Hitler |
1931 |
|
| The vase |
1938 |
|
| This flower wishes to fade |
1939 |
watercolor,paper |
| Transparent in perspective Grooved |
1921 |
watercolor |
| Tropical twilight |
1921 |
|
| Two country houses |
1918 |
|
| Veil Dance |
1920 |
|
| Clouds over Bor |
1940 |
|
| Villa R |
1919 |
oil,panel |
| Wall Painting from the Temple of Longing |
1922 |
watercolor |
| WI (In Memoriam) |
1938 |
gouache,watercolor |
| Hoffmanneske scene |
1940 |
|
| House on the Water |
1930 |
|
| Historic ground |
1939 |
watercolor,paper |
| Individualized Altimetry of Stripes |
1930 |
pastel |
| Error on green |
1939 |
|
| In the Current Six Thresholds |
1929 |
oil,tempera,canvas |
| Captive |
1940 |
|
| Love Song by the New Moon |
1939 |
|
| Chosen Site |
1940 |
|
| KOP |
1939 |
|
| Chinese porcelain |
1940 |
|
| Witch scene |
1921 |
oil,canvas |
| With the Egg |
1917 |
pen,watercolor,paper |
| With the Setting Sun |
1919 |
|
| Woman in Peasant Dress |
1940 |
paper |
| Women in their Sunday best |
1928 |
oil,canvas |
| Women's Pavilion |
1921 |
|
| Abstract Colour Harmony in Squares with Vermillion Accents |
1924 |
oil,cardboard |
| Abstraction with Reference to a Flowering Tree |
1925 |
oil,cardboard |
| Actor's Mask |
1924; United States |
oil,canvas |
| Fugue in Red |
1921 |
watercolor |
| After annealing |
1940 |
|
| After the floods |
1936 |
|
| A gate |
1938 |
|
| A kind of cat |
1937 |
|
| Oriental Garden |
1939 |
|
| Landscape with Sunset |
1923 |
oil,cardboard |
| Landscape with Yellow Birds |
1923 |
|
| Likeness in the bower |
1930 |
gouache,paper |
| Little Tree Amid Shrubbery |
1919 |
|
| Love Song by the New Moon |
1939 |
|
| Magdalena before the conversion |
1938 |
gouache,paper |
| Main path and byways |
1929 |
|
| Mess of fish |
1940 |
|
| Miraculous Landing |
1920 |
watercolor,paper |
| An allegory of propaganda |
1939 |
|
| Analysis of diverse perversities |
1922 |
pen,watercolor,paper |
| Angel Applicant |
1939 |
gouache,ink,graphite,cardboard |
| Angel Still Feminine |
1939 |
|
| Blue bird pumpkin |
1939 |
|
| A pressure of Tegernsee |
1919 |
watercolor |
| Architecture of the Plain |
1923 |
|
| Aroundfish |
1926 |
oil |
| Asian entertainers |
1919 |
crayon,watercolor,paper |
| A swarming |
1938 |
|
| Monument |
1929 |
watercolor |
| Mountain Village (Autumnal) |
1934 |
oil,panel |
| Mount Niesen |
1915; Switzerland |
watercolor |
| My mom drunk falls into the chair |
1940 |
|
| Necropolis |
1929 |
|
| Neuer Stadtteil in M |
1928 |
mixed technique,board |
| New Angel |
1920 |
|
| New Harmony |
1936 |
oil,canvas |
| Once Emerged from the Gray of Night |
1918 |
watercolor |
| Oriental Architecture |
1929 |
watercolor,paper |
| At the Core |
1935 |
oil,board |
| A woman for Gods |
1938 |
|
| A young ladys adventure |
1921 |
watercolor |
| Bad band |
1920 |
oil,watercolor,paper |
| Bandit's head |
1921 |
|
| Battle scene from the comic fantastic opera 'The Seafarer' |
1923 |
gouache,oil,pencil,watercolor,paper |
| Before the Blitz |
1923 |
gouache |
| Before the snow |
1920 |
|
| Bird Wandering Off |
1921 |
gouache,canvas |
| Black Knight |
1927 |
|
| Oriental Garden |
1939 |
|
| Park |
1920 |
|
| Park Bei Lu |
1938 |
|
| Part of G |
1927 |
oil,watercolor,paper |
| Pastoral (Rhythms) |
1927 |
|
| Persian Nightingales |
1917 |
|
| KOP |
1939 |
|
| Pierrot Lunaire |
1924 |
watercolor |
| Pious northern landscape |
1917 |
|
| Place signs |
1926 |
watercolor,paper |
| Destroyed Place |
1920 |
Oil On Paper Mounted On Gray-blue Cardboard Mounted On Plain Cardboard, With A Narrow Strip Of Tarnished Silver Around The Image |
| Twittering Machine |
1922 |
gouache,ink,Watercolor on Paper |
| The Goldfish |
1925 |
oil,Watercolor on Paper |
| Death and Fire |
1940 |
Oil on Paper |
| Ancient Sound, Abstract on Black |
1925 |
Oil on cardboard |
| Castle Garden (Schlossgarten) |
1931 |
Oil on Canvas |
| Embrace |
1939 |
|
| Red and White Domes |
1940 |
watercolor,vellum |
| Remembrance of a Garden |
1940 |
Watercolor on linen paper mounted on cardboard |
| Southern Gardens |
1921 |
Oil on Paper |
| Ad Parnassum |
1932 |
Oil on Canvas |
| Captive |
1940 |
Oil on burlap |
| Dream City |
1921 |
Watercolor and oil |
| Highway and Byways |
1929 |
Oil on Canvas |
| Insula Dulcamara |
1921 - 1938 |
oil,burlap |
| Legend of the Nile |
1937 |
Pastel on cotton cloth mounted on burlap |
| Park of Idols |
1938 |
Watercolor on Paper |
| Refuge |
1930 |
oil,watercolor |
| Rose Garden |
1920 |
Oil on cardboard |
| Southern (Tunisian) Gardens |
1919 |
Watercolor |
| Untitled (Still Life) |
1940 |
Oil on Canvas |
| Ad Parnassum |
1932 |
Oil on Canvas |
