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A great vintage poster of the work of Paul Klee (1879 - 1940) for an exhibit of Twelve Aquarelle drawings from October to November in 1964. The exhibition was held at Bergrruen and Cie in Paris, France. The poster is framed.

Paul Klee was born on December 18, 1879, in Münchenbuchsee, near Bern, Switzerland, the second child of Hans Klee, a German music teacher, and a Swiss mother. His training as a painter began in 1898 when he studied drawing and painting in Munich for three years. By 1911, he had returned to that city, where he became involved with the German Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), founded by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc in 1911. Klee and Kandinsky became lifelong friends, and the support of the older painter provided much-needed encouragement. He visited Tunisia in 1914. In 1920, Walter Gropius invited Klee to join the faculty of the Bauhaus. Bauhaus was a school of architecture and industrial design operating first in Weimar (1919--25) and then Dessau (1925--32), it also included the study of arts and crafts. Nearly half of Klee's some 10,000 works (mainly small-scale watercolors and drawings on paper) were produced during the ten years he taught at the Bauhaus, and they vary widely. Klee developed his own often whimsical world of line and color, rich in symbolism and the expression of his vision of society.