On Klee's Birthday: The Blue Rider Movement

Paul Klee was born in Switzerland today in 1879. I've long admired the infusion of poetry and dreams into his works of art. So, today, a little about Klee, who I was first introduced to in high school by an old friend who was far more sophisticated and worldly than I was by that age.

Klee studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, and later became associated with the Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) group, an Expressionist movement from 1911-1914, which was based on a connection between spiritual truth in art. Its leader: Wassily Kandinsky.

To celebrate the Blue Riders and Klee, a brief bio, selected works by Klee, and a bit on the Blue Rider movement:

Tale a la Hoffman, 1921.
Watercolor, pencil,
transferred printing ink
on paper, bordered with
metallic foil

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• California State University at East Bay
• About the Blue Rider Almanac
• A translation by Michael T. H. Sadler of Kandinsky's Concerning the Spiritual in Art