Paul Klee, upon graduating in 1898 from…

Paul Klee, upon graduating in 1898 from the Literarschule (a classical literary secondary school) at eighteen as a gifted violinist, leaves Bern for Munich, which is currently the artistic capital of Germany, and enrolls in the private art school of Heinrich Knirr.

Klee's mother, née Ida Maria Frick of Basel, and his German-born father, Hans Klee, are both trained musicians.

Paul wrote poetry as a youth and even tried his hand at writing plays.

As a boy Klee did delicate landscape drawings, in which he and his parents had seen the promise of a career, and he had filled his school notebooks with comic sketches.