A German citizen Paul Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee, near Bern, Switzerland, on December 18 1979. In 1898, Klee moved to Munich, where he studied art at a private school and at the Munich Academy. He grew up in a musical family and played the violin himself. After much hesitation he chose to study Art, not music as he attended the Munich Academy in 1900. In 1906, he married a pianist Lili Stumpf and settled in Munich, then an important center for avant-garde art. He joined Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), an expressionist group that contributed much to the development of abstract art. After World War I, he taught at the Bauhaus School. In 1931, he began to teach at Dusseldorf Academy, but the Nazis, who termed his work “degenerate”, dis
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