Modern Masters: Paul Klee, El Lissitzky, Jewlensky

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Title: Modern Masters: Paul Klee, El Lissitzky, Jewlensky

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Modern Masters Paul Klee, El Lissitzky,
Jewlensky

GATE Art Academy

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Paul Klee

Paul Klee, b. Dec. 18, 1879, d. June 29, 1940
A Swiss-born painter and graphic artist whose
personal, often gently humorous works are replete
with allusions to dreams, music, and poetry,, is
difficult to classify.
Klee grew up in a musical family and was himself
a violinist. After much hesitation he chose to
study art, not music, and he attended the Munich
Academy in 1900.
After his marriage in 1906 to the pianist Lili
Stumpf, Klee settled in Munich, then an important
center for avant-garde art. That same year he
exhibited his etchings for the first time.

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Influences

A turning point in Klee's career was his visit to
Tunisia with Macke and Louis Molliet in 1914.
He was so overwhelmed by the intense light there
that he wrote Color has taken possession of me
no longer do I have to chase after it, I know
that it has hold of me forever. That is the
significance of this blessed moment. Color and I
are one. I am a painter.
Klee often incorporated letters and numerals into
his paintings.

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http//www.fantasyarts.net/Paul_Klee_Paintings.htm
http//www.artchive.com/artchive/K/klee.html
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http//www.fantasyarts.net/Paul_Klee_Paintings.htm
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http//www.abcgallery.com/K/klee/klee2.html
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El Lissitzky

Lazar Markovich Lissitzky (November 23, 1890
December 30, 1941) better known as El Lissitzky
was a Russian artist, designer, photographer,
teacher, typographer, and architect.
He was one of the most important figures of the
Russian avant garde, helping develop suprematism
with his friend and mentor, Kazimir Malevich.

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El Lissitzky

Lissitzky's entire career was laced with the
belief that the artist could be an agent for
change.
In 1941 he produced one of his last known works
a Soviet propaganda poster rallying the people to
construct more tanks for the fight against Nazi
Germany.

http//users.design.ucla.edu/cariesta/designhisto
ry/avangards/El_Lissitzky_1.JPG
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El Lissitzky's works, which are mostly gouaches,
currently run for values between 15,000 and
150,000.

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Jewlensky
http//www.russianavantgard.com/master_03_artists_
world_of_art/alexei_javlensky.html
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Who is Jawlensky?

In 1896 he moved to Munich where he met Wassily
Kandinsky, and Marianne von Werefkin, other
Russian artists and helped form the Munich New
Artist's Association, also known as The Blue
Rider Group .
His work in this period was lush and richly
colored, but later moved towards abstraction .
He died in Wiesbaden, Germany on March 15, 1941

A Russian expressionist painter active in
Germany.
He was born in Torzhok, a town in the department
of Tver, Russia, as the fifth child of Georgi von
Jawlensky and his wife Alexandra.
His family was aristocratic.
At the age of ten he moved with his family to
Moscow.
After a few years of military training, he became
interested in painting.

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexej_von_Jawlensky
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www.von-der-heydt-museum
www.lbma.org
http//www.artivisio-kunstdrucke.de/kunstdruck/bil
der/expressionismus--10.htm
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The Blue Four
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Self-portrait
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Week 4Making Art