Paul Klee

The artist Paul Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee (near Bern), Switzerland. He worked with many different types of media - oil paint, watercolour, ink - often combining them into one work. He has been variously associated with expressionism, cubism and surrealism, but his pictures are difficult to classify. They often have a fragile child-like quality to them and are usually on a small scale. They frequently allude to poetry, music and dreams and sometimes include words or musical notation. When Paul Klee died at age sixty, he left at least 8,926 works of art. The words on his tombstone say, "I belong not only to this life. I live as well with the dead, as with those not born. Nearer to the heart of creation than others, but still too far." Today, a painting by Paul Klee can sell for as much as $7.5 million but our prints are much cheaper.