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Omega 5 (Traps) Paul Klee, 1927
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Omega 5 (Traps)

Paul Klee · 1927

Why it's great

Dark red teardrop shapes and strange little pictures hang like tools in a puzzle, in Paul Klee's Omega 5 of 1927. It's like a story in code.

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About the artist

Paul Klee

1879–1940 · born in Münchenbuchsee · died in Muralto

Paul Klee was born near Bern, Switzerland, to a musical family and was also a talented violinist. He taught at the Bauhaus, a famous art school in Germany, and later fled the Nazis to Switzerland. His playful, imaginative paintings use lines, colors and symbols as if they were music. He died in Switzerland in 1940.

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