Paul Klee (1879-1940) Switzerland/Germany, Serigraph. 'Landhaus im Norden' 1925 Serigraph, signed and dated. Title in English is 'Country House in the North'. Overall Size: 21 1/8 x 23 1/4 in. Sight Size: 13 1/4 x 17 in. #1383 . Paul Klee is known for Childlike fantasy and imagination painting, teaching. A Swiss-born painter and graphic artist, Paul Klee was born on December 18, 1879, in Munchenbuchsee, Switzerland, into a family of musicians. His personal, often gently humorous works are filled with allusions to dreams, music, and poetry, and are difficult to classify. Primitive art, surrealism, cubism, and children's art all seem blended into his small-scale, delicate paintings, watercolors, and drawings Klee grew up in a musical family and was himself a violinist. His childhood love of music was always to remain important in his life and work. From 1898 to 1901, Klee studied in Munich, first with Heinrich Knirr, then at the Kunstakademie under Franz von Stuck. Upon completing his schooling, he traveled to Italy in the first of a series of trips abroad that nourished his visual sensibilities. While in Italy (1901-02), he responded enthusiastically to Early Christian and Byzantine art. He settled in Bern in 1902.