<P> Paul Klee ( German : ( paʊ̯l ˈkleː ) ; 18 December 1879 -- 29 June 1940 ) was a Swiss - 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 for the Renaissance . He and his colleague , Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky , both taught at the Bauhaus school of art , design and architecture . His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes childlike perspective , his personal moods and beliefs , and his musicality . </P>
<P> Paul Klee ( German : ( paʊ̯l ˈkleː ) ; 18 December 1879 -- 29 June 1940 ) was a Swiss - 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 for the Renaissance . He and his colleague , Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky , both taught at the Bauhaus school of art , design and architecture . His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes childlike perspective , his personal moods and beliefs , and his musicality . </P>
swiss artist was an illustrator at the bauhaus
swiss artist was an illustrator at the bauhaus
Paul Klee
Paul Klee