Paul Klee was a German artist born on 18 December 1879 in Munchenbuchsee, near Bern, Switzerland. Paul was the son of musical parents, which explains his musical talents. He was such a skilled violinist that he was invited to join the Bern Symphony Orchestra at the age of 11. He also had an enthusiasm for the arts, and wrote poetry in his early years. His parents, aware of the possibility of a successful career with his drawing skills, encouraged him. 

Paul Klee began drawing landscapes and humorous sketches in his books while a student at the Literarschule, a literary school in Bern. When he graduated in 1898, Paul Klee moved to Munich to continue his art studies. He attended the Munich Academy of Fine Arts, where he developed his characteristic technique. At the same time he discovered the paintings of Cézanne and Van Gogh.

Paul Klee married the German pianist Lily Stumpf in 1906 and moved to Munich. In 1910 he joined the "Blaue Reiter" group, whose members were followers of modern abstraction, and exhibited his work. These included Red Balloon, Ancient Harmony, Fire, Full Moon and many others. Shortly before the First World War, he went to Tunisia and painted many watercolours there, marked by the local colours. After the war, he was hired as an art teacher at the Bauhaus in Germany, but his work was reviled by the Nazis. Seventeen of his paintings were shown in Munich in an exhibition called "Degenerate Art", aimed at discrediting unconventional artists. He was a professor at the Düsseldorf Academy before moving to Switzerland in 1933 and dying in 1940.