What nationality was the painter Paul Klee?
Paul Klee Paul Klee Paul Klee (; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss German artist. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored color theory, writing about it extensively; his lectures "Writings on Form and Design Theory" ("Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre"), published in English as the "Paul Klee Notebooks", are held to be as important for modern art as Leonardo da Vinci's "A Treatise on Painting" for the Renaissance. He and his colleague, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky,
Paul Klee the greatest composers; he most enjoyed playing the works by the latter. Klee's work has influenced composers such as Argentinian Roberto García Morillo in 1943, with "Tres pinturas de Paul Klee". Others include the American composer David Diamond in 1958, with the four-part Opus "Welt von Paul Klee" (World of Paul Klee). Gunther Schuller composed "Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee" in the years 1959/60, consisting of "Antique Harmonies", "Abstract Trio", "Little Blue Devil", "Twittering Machine", "Arab Village", "An Eerie Moment", and "Pastorale". The Spanish composer Benet Casablancas wrote "Alter Klang", Impromptu for Orchestra after Klee (2006); Casablancas is