517 - Paul Klee (Münchenbuchsee 1879 - 1940 Muralto)

Paul Klee (Münchenbuchsee 1879 - 1940 Muralto) Number tree landscape, 1919 lithography/paper 16,6 x 12,2 cm signed, dated and numbered in the plate Klee, 1919, 112 SCHÄTZPREIS / ESTIMATE € 200 - 300 STARTPREIS / STARTING PRICE € 200 Paul Klee was a Swiss-German painter, draftsman, printmaker, and art theorist, as well as a central figure of Classical Modernism. His distinctive visual language combines abstraction, the use of signs, music, and poetry. After studying in Munich under Heinrich Knirr and Franz von Stuck, Klee became associated in 1911 with the circle of *Der Blaue Reiter* (The Blue Rider), founded by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. A trip to Tunisia in 1914 marked a turning point: inspired by the North African light, he increasingly liberated color from the mere depiction of nature, employing it instead as an independent artistic element. From 1921 to 1931, Klee taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau at the invitation of Walter Gropius. He subsequently held a professorship at the Düsseldorf Art Academy before being dismissed by the National Socialists in 1933 and returning to Bern. Despite suffering from a severe illness, he produced an extensive body of late work there. Klee died on June 29, 1940, in Muralto, near Locarno. PLEASE NOTE: The purchase price consists of the highest bid plus the buyer's premium, sales tax and, if applicable, the fee of artists resale rights and platform fee. In the case of normal taxation (marked ° at the estimate), a premium of 24% is added to the highest bid. The mandatory sales tax is added to the sum of the highest bid, the buyer's premium and platform fee. This amounts to 13% for paintings, drawings, graphic works and sculptures and 20% for photographs and all other items. The buyer's premium amounts to 28% in case of differential taxation. The sales tax is included in the differential taxation.