About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 48. Chapters: Otto Dix, Paul Klee, Clifton Pugh, Anton Lamazares, Kathe Kollwitz, Roberto Matta, Albert Kotin, Max Beckmann, Tyeb Mehta, Oskar Herman, Lawrence Calcagno, Julius Podlipny, Elfriede Lohse-Wachtler, Magda Cordell McHale, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Nanno de Groot, Ezio Martinelli, Gabriele Munter, Gregorio Prestopino, Joseph Kutter, Jay Milder, Jan Muller, Lovis Corinth, Richard Simon, Alma Thomas, Margret Hofheinz-Doring, Feliks Topolski, Raquel Forner, Yury Annenkov, EC Bell, Yuichiro Ando, Vilmos Aba-Novak, Benny Andrews, Tahia Halim, Nicholas Marsicano, Ludwig Meidner, Carola Richards, Karen Holtsmark, Leo Gestel, Devender Singh, Silvia Cambir, Karina Baluyut, Else Meidner. Excerpt: Paul Klee (German pronunciation: 18 December 1879 - 29 June 1940) was born in Munchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a German and a Swiss painter. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was, as well, a student of orientalism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually mastered color theory, and wrote extensively about it; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are considered so important for modern art that they are compared to the importance that Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting had for Renaissance. He and his colleague, the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the German Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture. His works reflect his dry humour and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality. Klee was born in Munchenbuchsee (near Bern), Switzerland into a musical family. His father, Hans Klee, was a German music teacher at the Hofwil Teacher Seminar ...
