PAUL KLEE1879-1940

Short hairBlack hair

Brown eyes

Moustache

Beard

What did Paul Klee look like?

Was he ……..?

A teacher A vet

An artist A policeman

He was a painter, a musician and a

teacher.

He was born in Berne, Switzerland.

What do you know about Switzerland?

What languages do they speak in

Switzerland?

Can you find Switzerland on a

map?

• His father was a German music

teacher. His mother was a

Swiss singer.

• When he was young he was

interested in music. He

played the violin in an

orchestra, but when he was a

teenager he was more

interested in visual arts. He

studied in an Art School in

Munich, Germany.

• He married a German pianist

and they had a son, Felix Paul.

• He travelled to different

countries like France,

Germany, Italy and Tunisia.

This influenced on his art.

He was a friend of Wasilly Kandinskyand Franz Marc. They formed the Blue Rider

group.

He experimented on different artistic

movements like

- Cubism

- Surrealism

- Expressionism

Paul Klee was a teacher at the

Bauhaus School of Art and Design

in Germany.

He painted about 10.000 pieces of art at the

end of his life.

• He painted with

different colours

and techniques. WATERCOLOURS

INK

OIL

KLEE’S ARTWORK

Paul Klee loved colours!

He painted animals

Cat and bird (1928)

The goldfish (1925) Forest bird

He painted portraits and faces

Senecio (1922)Woman in Peasant dress (1940)

He used different shapes:

squares, triangles, rectangles and circles

Red Balloon (1922)Red bridge

QUIZ!Paul Klee

short curly brown hair

long blonde hair

short straight black hair

long straight black hair

What does Paul Klee look like? He’s

got ...

teacher, painter and musician

doctor, painter and farmer

waiter, shop assistant and architect

doctor, farmer and plumber

What did he do? He was a ...

Berlin (Germany)

Berne (Switzerland)

Majorca (Spain)

Where was he born? He was born in

...

Paris (France)

Blue and white

Yellow and black

Red and pink

Red and white

What are the colours of the flag of

Switzerland?

FINISH

(1st cycle) Let´s look at….

Castle and Sun

Do you know any shapes in English?

SQUARE

TRIANGLE

CIRCLE

RECTANGLE

Cut different shapes from

coloured paper!

Make your own composition!

(2nd cycle) Let´s look at …

Cat and bird

FIRST

Draw the lines in pencil.

SECOND

Draw the lines again in

black felt tip.

THIRD

Paint with watercolours.

FOURTH Spray with water.

(3rd cycle) Let´s look at …

portraits

Senecio Head with German moustache

Which shapes and

colours can you

see?

First, take a blank piece of

paper.

Second, think of your

proportions and trace your

face features in pencil,

and then in sharpie.

Emphasize the details that

are unique to you. They

will make the portrait look

like you (freckles, hair

style, head shape, etc.).

Third, cut out tissue

squares and lay them on

your portrait.

Then spary each portrait

with water. After a couple

of minutes take off the

tissue paper and let dry.

Think about Paul Klee and his colour experiments.

Daphne Lloyd & Núria Lorenzo

CLIL Art & Crafts at CEIP Can Raspalls

2014/2015