Masters' Houses in Dessau
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Paul Klee

1879 - 1940
1920 Called to the Bauhaus in Weimar by Walter Gropius.
1928 Founded the group "die blauen Vier" (The Blue Four) with Feininger, Jawlensky and Kandinsky, who exhibited mostly in the USA. Closure of the Bauhaus in Weimar.
1925 - 1930 The council agreed to take over the Bauhaus Master at the Bauhaus - Head of Book Binding, Head of Glass Painting, course "Elementary Surface Design", public painting classes and weaving design, " Pädagogisches Skizzenbuch" (Pedagogic Sketch Book) appearing in the series of Bauhaus Books. Moves to Dessau. Lives in one of the semi-detached houses, with Wassily and Nina Kandinsky as neighbours.
1931 Resigned his contract with the Bauhaus and became Professor at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf, but temporarily held onto his house in Dessau.
1932 Emigrates to Switzerland.
   
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Paul Klee Dessau 1933
Photo: Josef Albers
Klee family estate, Paul-Klee/foundation, Kunstmuseum Bern

Paul Klee, Eros 1923
Pen and ink and watercolour,
Rosengart collection, Luzern
© VG Bildkunst Bonn

Walter Gropius
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
Lyonel Feininger
Georg Muche
Oskar Schlemmer
Wassily Kandinsky
Paul Klee
   
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