# TLDR Paul Klee | Twittering Machine

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Podcast: [Who Arted: Weekly Art History for All Ages](https://stenobird.com/podcast/who-arted-weekly-art-history-for-all-ages-506807)
Published: 2026-06-12T07:10:00+00:00
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Paul Klee, born on December 18, 1879, in Switzerland, developed into one of modern art's most influential figures, crossing paths with major movements such as Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. Raised in a deeply musical family, he trained extensively as a violinist and played with the Bern Music Association by age eleven before pivoting to the visual arts and moving to Munich in 1900 to study at the Academy of Fine Arts. Klee believed that classical music lacked further room for creative innovation, prompting his shift toward painting. While his early work consisted mainly of monochromatic etchings and drawings, a pivotal two-week trip to Tunisia in 1914 with August Macke and Louis Moilliet completely transformed his relationship with color, marking a permanent transition toward vibrant, abstract compositions. He later achieved significant professional success as a faculty member at the Bauhaus school from 1921 to 1931, where his highly structured teaching methodology and analytical lectures were compiled into the Paul Klee Notebooks, a text considered as foundational to modern art as Leonardo da Vinci’s treatises were to the Renaissance. The ascent of the Nazi regime dramatically disrupted Klee's career when the government classified his avant-garde creations as "degenerate art," forcing his dismissal from the Düsseldorf Academy in 1933 and leading to the systemic purge of 102 of his works from public museums. He spent his remaining years in Swiss exile fighting scleroderma, a severe autoimmune disease that hardened his skin and internal organs, rendering fine, intricate linework painful and difficult. Rather than stopping, Klee adjusted his style to accommodate his physical limitations, shifting toward simplified geometric forms, larger canvases, thick black out…

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