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Paul Klee

1879 - 1940

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Paul Klee (German: [paʊ̯l ˈkleː]; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored color theory, writing about it extensively. His lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are held to be as important for modern art as Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting was for the Renaissance. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Klee is the 51st most popular painter (down from 49th in 2019), the 13th most popular biography from Switzerland and the most popular Swiss Painter.

Paul Klee is a German-Swiss artist who is most famous for his work in the field of art. He was a painter, draftsman, and sculptor.

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Among painters, Paul Klee ranks 51 out of 2,023. Before him are Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Caspar David Friedrich, Anthony van Dyck, Andrea del Verrocchio, and Fra Angelico. After him are René Magritte, Artemisia Gentileschi, Georges Braque, Camille Pissarro, Jean-Antoine Watteau, and Giorgione.

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Among people born in 1879, Paul Klee ranks 5. Before him are Albert Einstein, Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, and Owen Willans Richardson. After him are Kazimir Malevich, Emperor Taishō, Otto Hahn, Franz von Papen, Max von Laue, Margaret Sanger, and Emiliano Zapata. Among people deceased in 1940, Paul Klee ranks 5. Before him are Leon Trotsky, F. Scott Fitzgerald, J. J. Thomson, and Selma Lagerlöf. After him are Neville Chamberlain, Walter Benjamin, Mikhail Bulgakov, Arthur Harden, Nikolai Yezhov, Robert Wadlow, and Carl Bosch.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Paul Klee ranks 13 out of 1,015. Before him are Jean Piaget (1896), Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Jacob Bernoulli (1654), Huldrych Zwingli (1484), Sepp Blatter (1936), and Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746). After him are Charles Édouard Guillaume (1861), Charles Albert Gobat (1843), Jean-Paul Marat (1743), K. Alex Müller (1927), Élie Ducommun (1833), and Johann Bernoulli (1667).

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Among PAINTERS In Switzerland

Among painters born in Switzerland, Paul Klee ranks 1. After him are Arnold Böcklin (1827), Angelica Kauffman (1741), Henry Fuseli (1741), Johannes Itten (1888), Ferdinand Hodler (1853), Félix Vallotton (1865), H. R. Giger (1940), Charles Gleyre (1806), Albert Anker (1831), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889), and Jean-Étienne Liotard (1702).

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