Alexander Klee, one of the promoters of the renowned Paul Klee museum in the Swiss capital, Bern, has died aged 80.
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Alexander, a grandson of the painter Paul Klee, was himself a painter, graphic designer and press photographer. He had lived in Switzerland and France since the 1970s and also had made a reputation as an art collector.
He died on March 1 according to obituaries in several Swiss newspapers
Alexander Klee helped pave the way for the establishment of the Paul Klee Centre in 2005 which features a significant collection of one of the most famous painters of the 20th century.
In a press release published on Saturday, the museumExternal link paid tribute to Alexander Klee, also known as Alyosha Ségard, saying he help promote, maintain and research the works of his grandfather, who died in 1940, three months before the birth of Alexander.
The museum by Italian architect Renzo Piano is a wave-shaped steel and glass construction on the outskirts of Bern.
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Klee and Kandinsky first met in 1911 as neighbours in the northern Munich borough of Schwabing. In 1922, their paths crossed again at the famous Bauhaus art school in Weimar. In 1925, they moved to Dessau where the Bauhaus school was relocated. There they lived next door to the newly built houses designed by the…
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Due for completion before the end of 2004, the Paul Klee Centre will house more than 4,000 works, making it easily the world’s most important collection of paintings, drawing and sculptures by Klee, who was born near the Swiss capital and lived there for most of his life. He died in 1940. But when it…
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