Paul Klee

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Paul Klee is one of the best-loved artists of the 20th century. He was born near Bern, Switzerland, in 1879. He spent most of his career in Germany. He died in 1940.
Whenever you are in Bern, take a number 12 bus to the Paul-Klee-Museum. It’s a modern building. There you can see a large part of Klee’s work (oil, water-colours, drawings and prints). Klee had a vivid imagination. He never repeated himself. Some of his paintings are purely abstract, but most of them are based on the things he saw around him. They are full of radiant colours and a joyous love of life.
Paul Klee’s mother was Swiss. His German father was a music teacher at a Swiss teacher training college. Paul was interested in music. He was also interested in art. He studied Art

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