Word: klee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Paul Klee, 61, Swiss-born painter; in Berne, Switzerland. His scrawly-scratchy works banned as "Bolshevist art," Artist Klee was forced in 1933 to resign as professor at the Academy of Art in Dusseldorf, fled Germany...
...Germanic Museum, that rather grim looking building which periodically comes forth with some of the best art exhibits around town, is once more to be congratulated upon the quality and interest embodied in one of its presentations. Its current exhibit of Paul Klee's paintings deserves the special attention of anyone interested in the problems characteristic of contemporary Continental art. Klee is considered by many to be the ablest exponent of recent German painting...
There is a certain difficulty involved in adjusting one's self to Klee's style in order to make his work resemble anything like a communicative medium. It cannot be denied that to understand him as a painter requires much concentration and intellectual exercise, for a few traditional cobwebs must first be cleared from our minds, and a sympathetic desire to go hand in hand with the artist on his own ground must be substituted. Klee is not a literal painter. His colors themselves are intended to contain a certain emotional content, and the total effect of each...
Among those associated with Gropius in the school were such well-known figures as Kandinsky, Klee, Feininger, Schlemmer, Itten, Moholy-Nagy, Albers, Bayer, Breuer, Stoelzl, and others