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Paul Klee

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Artist

The Resume

    (December 18, 1879-June 29, 1940)
    Born in Munchenbuchsee, Switzerland
    Expressionist and surrealist painter
    Member of the Blaue Ritter ('Blue Rider') group
    Works include 'Fish Magic,' 'Viaducts Break Ranks,' 'Angelus Novus,' 'Tale a la Hoffman' and 'Twittering Machine'
    Last name pronounced 'Clay'

Why he might be annoying:

    In art school, he excelled at drawing but worried 'that I probably would never learn to paint.'
    He had a son out of wedlock.
    When he joined the German army in WWI, his father pulled strings to make sure he was not sent to the front.
    Even though he was born and died in Switzerland, he never became a citizen.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He had a dry sense of humor.
    He excelled at both art and music, playing the violin at age seven and drawing at age eight.
    Rainer Marie Rilke said, 'Even if you hadn't told me he plays the violin, I would have guessed that on many occassions his drawings were transcriptions of music.'
    He was extremely prolific, producing 1200 drawings and paintings in 1939 alone.
    When the Nazis took power in Germany, he was fired from his teaching position at the Dusseldorf Academy and his works were denounced as 'degenerate art.'

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 2 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 3 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 12 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 10 Votes: 70.0% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 7 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 21 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2009, Out of 29 Votes: 37.93% Annoying