Tunisreise paul klee biography
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Paul Klee
Paul Klee, Munich, 1911. Photo: Alexander Eliasberg. [2] | |
| Born | December 18, 1879(1879-12-18) Münchenbuchsee near Bern, Switzerland |
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| Died | June 29, 1940(1940-06-29) (aged 60) Muralto, Switzerland |
| Web | Wikipedia, Wikipedia-DE |
| Collections | ZPK Bern, MoMA |
Paul Klee (1879–1940) was a Swiss artist. His work inherently resists easy classification. Rooted in Symbolism, Expressionism, Cubism, Orphism, Constructivism, and Surrealism, his work is a veritable index of twentieth-century art. Klee freely maneuvered between abstraction and representation, creating works which range from the openly gestural to the tightly geometric, the wholly linear to the wholly chromatic.
Chronology[edit]
Sourced from Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 2016. Cf. chronology by Paul Klee Zentrum.
- 1879 Paul Klee is born on 18 December in Münchenbuchsee outside Bern in Switzerland. His father is a music teacher, Hans Wilhelm Klee (
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Die Tunisreise
2007 Austrian film
Die Tunisreise Directed by Bruno Moll Screenplay by Bruno Moll, Nacer Khemir Produced by PRISMA FILM, FAMA spelfilm AG Starring Nacer Khemir Cinematography Matthias Kälin Edited by Anja Bombelli Music by Johann Sebastian Bach Release date
Running time
75 minutes Countries Austria
Swaziland
TunisiaDie Tunisreise is a 2007 documentary film.
Synopsis
[edit]This documentary connects two artistic trajectories belonging to two different eras. The former was done by Paul Klee, whose work was considerably influenced by his journey to Tunis, Tunisia, in 1914. The latter is done by the Tunisian filmmaker and painter Nacer Khemir, inspired by Klee's paintings. This film shows the connection between the possibilities offered by images and reveals the links between both artists. Nearly a hundred years after Paul Klee, Nacer Khemir retraces Paul Klee's footsteps in Tunisia, guiding the spectator into the
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The Tunisreise Collection - A letter by the artist In 1914 Paul Klee, August Macke and Louis Moilliet went on a journey to Tunis. This would later become one of the most expressive artistic journeys in Art History. It is marked by a lot of discoveries specially by Swiss - born German painter Paul Klee who would later write on his travel book while describing his watercolors and color discoveries in Tunis “I am a painter!” in an affirmative way.I always work hearing my subconscious, letting the shapes and colors emerge from my inner self to the surface of the paper through my unique symbolic universum that is constantly in development with my surroundings and new discoveries. At my working process the name of the artworks always comes in an intuitive way and it happens either on process, or after the process of painting, installing or sculpting is done. Several days after painting I gave a fresh look at them, and saw on those patterns and colors how the Tunisreise (Tunis J