Paul Klee

Paul Klee (18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-German painter. 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, both taught at the Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture. His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.

Links To Peel
On Peel's show from 05 November 2003, an unidentified emailer asked him whether he likes art. Peel responded:


 * "What does that mean really? I mean I sorta do. Paul Klee or Paal Klay if you feeling Germanic about it. Been a hero of mine since I was, oh about that high, and there's an exhibition of his stuff in Stuttgart,  drawings that have not been seen previously, and if I could pluck up the courage to fly to Stuttgart, I would certainly fly to Stuttgart to see them, I may make my way to see them."

It is not known whether Peel actually did go to Stuttgart to see them.