klee
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He was a Swiss-born painter and graphic artist whose personal, often gently humorous works are replete with allusions to dreams, music, and poetry. Paul Klee's paintings moved away from exact representation and pure description to work which was more about expressing ideas and new forms of expression and their work formed art movements. This master of modern art was able to complete almost 10,000 works ranging freely between the abstract and figurative. His first, but minor, artistic success came when some of his etchings were featured in the Munich Sezession inhabitation around 1906. In 1910, Paul had his first one-man-show at the Bern Museum and then toured to Zurich, Basel, and finally Winterthur. A foremost turning point happened in 1914, when he and August Macke paid a foot night's visit to Tunisia. During this visit, he was so overwhelmed by the intense light there that he wrote in his journal, "Color has taken possession of meI am a painter." Among his notable exhibitions of this period were his first in the United States at the Societe Anonyme, New York, in 1924; his first major show in Paris the following year at the Galerie Vavin-Raspail; and an exhibition at the Museum of modern art, New York, in 1930. Salient exhibitions took place in Bern and Basel in 1935 and in Zurich in1940. Klee brought out many principles of surrealism involved in his paintings and had much influence on other artists of this era...