Paul Klee

Paul Klee (1879-1940) was an artist who grew up in Bern and worked in Munich, where he associated with Kandinsky and Der Blaue Reiter. A journey to Tunisia in 1914 made him a colourist. From 1921 to 1931 he taught at the Bauhaus, then at the academy in Düsseldorf, until the Nazis dismissed him in 1933 and he returned to Bern. He kept his own catalogue of nearly 10,000 works: paintings, watercolours and drawings full of signs, lines and humour. The Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern holds about 4,000 works.