User:Oceanflynn/sandbox/Timeline Paul Klee

Selected timeline of events related to Paul Klee

In January 1911 Alfred Kubin 1911 Klee met Wilhelm Hausenstein in 1911. 1913 In the Quarry (1913) Houses near the Gravel Pit (1913) color
 * born 18 December 1879 born Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland father German music teacher Hans Wilhelm Klee (1849–1940) mother Swiss singer Ida Marie Klee, née Frick (1855–1921).
 * 1880 family moved to Bern
 * 1886 violin classes at the Municipal Music School,
 * 1886 - 1890, primary school
 * 1890 gifted
 * 1892[File:Paul Klee 1892.jpg|thumb|right|50px|Paul Klee as schoolboy, 1892]
 * 1895 His landscape drawings showed skill.
 * 1896 Paul Klee My Room 1896.jpg]]
 * 1897 Klee started his diary (1897-1918)
 * 1898-1901(?) studies art at Academy of Fine Arts in Munich with Heinrich Knirr and Franz von Stuck.
 * 1901-1902 Grand Tour (Rome, Florence, and Naples) with Hermann Haller
 * 1903-5 eleven zinc-plate etchings called Inventions, first exhibited works grotesque characters.
 * 1903-5 11 zinc-plate etchings InventionsExhibited works, in which he illustrated several grotesque characters.
 * "Blaue Reiter", 1911
 * 1911 Klee met August Macke, Wassily Kandinsky, editorial team Der Blaue Reiter, founded by Franz Marc and Kandinsky. 1911 Klee important members Blaue Reiter
 * 1912 Paris Cubism abstract art Robert Delaunay Maurice de Vlaminck
 * April 1914 Tunisia with August Macke and Louis Moilliet light
 * 1914 In the Style of Kairouan (1914)
 * 1919 The Bavarian Don Giovanni (1919).
 * 5 March 1916 military career World War I conscripted Prussia or Imperial Germany) Deaths August Macke and Franz Marc
 * several pen and ink lithographsDeath for the Idea (1915). *1916 20 August Oberschleissheim, skilled manual work restoring aircraft camouflage
 * 17 January 1917 Royal Bavarian flying school in Gersthofen clerkuntil the end of the war.
 * 1917 Klee sold art work. Best of the "new German artists". Ab ovo
 * 1918Warning of the Ships.
 * 1922 Mature career


 * 1919 3-year contract with dealer Hans Goltz's influential gallery: exposure and commercial success
 * 1920 Retrospective c.300 works
 * January 1921 to April 1931 Klee taught at Bauhaus
 * 1922 Kandinsky joined Bauhaus staff Resumed friendship with Klee
 * 1922 1st Bauhaus exhibition and festival
 * 1923 Klee member Die Blaue Vier (The Blue Four)(Kandinsky, Lyonel Feininger, Alexej von Jawlensky)
 * 1925 Die Blaue Vier lectured exhibited in USA in 1925
 * 1925 Klee's 1st exhibits in Paris Hit with French Surrealists.
 * 1928 Klee in Egypt
 * 1929 1st major monograph Klee's work
 * 1931 to 1933 Klee taught Düsseldorf Academy (Nazi newspaper: "Then that great fellow Klee comes onto the scene, already famed as a Bauhaus teacher in Dessau. He tells everyone he's a thoroughbred Arab, but he's a typical Galician Jew."
 * 1930s Klee's home searched by Gestapo Klee fired from his job. His self-portrait Struck from the List (1933)
 * 1933-4 Klee shows in London and Paris
 * 1933-4 Met Pablo Picasso
 * late 1933 Klees emigrated to Switzerland
 * 1932 career peaked Ad Parnassum (1932) His masterpiece.
 * 1933 produced 500 works in Germany.
 * 1933 First symptoms of scleroderma
 * 1921 Rainer Maria Rilke : Klee in 1921, "Even if you hadn’t told me he plays the violin, I would have guessed that on many occasions his drawings were transcriptions of music."
 * 1933 Pamela Kort observed: "Klee's 1933 drawings present their beholder with an unparalleled opportunity to glimpse a central aspect of his aesthetics that has remained largely unappreciated: his lifelong concern with the possibilities of parody and wit. Herein lies their real significance, particularly for an audience unaware that Klee's art has political dimensions."
 * 1916 and 1925 hand puppets Felix his son. not in his catalogue raisonné. at Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern.
 * 1903 and 1905 in the cycle "Inventionen" (Inventions),
 * June 1906 at the "Internationale Kunstausstellung des Vereins bildender Künstler Münchens 'Secession'" (International Art Exhibition of the Association for Graphic Arts, Munich, Secession), his first appearance as a painter in the public.
 * 1940 Ohne Titel, aka Der Todesengel (Angel of Death).
 * Death and Fire His legacy comprises about 9,000 works of art.
 * 29 June 1940 Died in Muralto, Locarno, Switzerland.
 * July 1940 Granted Swiss citizenship posthumously.
 * In the years 1903-5 he also completed a cycle of eleven zinc-plate etchings called Inventions, his first exhibited works, in which he illustrated several grotesque characters.

Publications

 * Jardi, Enric (1991) Paul Klee, Rizzoli Intl Pubns, ISBN 0-8478-1343-6
 * Kagan, Andrew (1993) Paul Klee at the Guggenheim Museum (exhibition catalogue) Introduction by Lisa Dennison, essay by Andrew Kagan. 208 pages. English and Spanish editions. 1993, ISBN 978-0-89207-106-7

Books, essays and lectures by Paul Klee

 * 1922 Beiträge zur bildnerischen Formlehre ('Contributions to a pictorial theory of form', part of his 1921-2 lectures at the Bauhaus)
 * 1923 Wege des Naturstudiums ('Ways of Studying Nature'), 4 pages. Published in the catalogue for the Erste Bauhaus Ausstellung (First Bauhaus Exhibition) in Summer 1923. Also published in Paul Klee Notebooks vol 1.
 * 1924 Über moderne Kunst ('On Modern Art'), lecture held at Paul Klee's exhibition at the Kunstverein in Jena on 26 January 1924
 * 1924 Pädagogisches Skizzenbuch ('Pedagogical Sketchbook')
 * 1949 Documente und Bilder aus den Jahren 1896–1930, ('Documents and images from the years 1896–1930'), Berne, Benteli
 * 1956 Graphik, ('Graphics'), Berne, Klipstein & Kornfeld
 * 1956 Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre ('Writings on form and design theory') edited by Jürg Spiller (English edition: 'Paul Klee Notebooks')
 * 1956 Band I: Das bildnerische Denken., ('Volume I: the creative thinking'). 572 pages review. (English translation from German by Ralph Manheim: 'The thinking eye')
 * 1964 Band 2: Unendliche Naturgeschichte ('Volume 2: Infinite Natural History') (English translation from German by Heinz Norden: 'The Nature of Nature')
 * 1964 The Diaries of Paul Klee 1898–1918  ed. Felix Klee Berkeley, University of California
 * 1976 Schriften, Rezensionen und Aufsätze edited by Ch. Geelhaar, Köln,
 * 1960 Gedichte, poems, edited by Felix Klee
 * 1962 Some poems by Paul Klee ed Anselm Hollo. London