Category:Paul Klee

Paul Klee 

Swiss artist (1879-1940) De Paul Klee, 1911  image   image of grave
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Name in native language	Paul Klee
Date of birth	18 December 1879 Münchenbuchsee
Date of death	29 June 1940 Muralto
Manner of death	natural causes
Cause of death	scleroderma
Place of burial	Schosshalden cemetery
Work period (start)	1899
Work period (end)	1940
Country of citizenship	German Reich Switzerland
Educated at	State University of Music and Performing Arts Stuttgart Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
Occupation	painter university teacher visual artist graphic artist lithographer designer printmaker draftsman draughtsman
Employer	Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Member of	Die Blaue Vier The Blue Rider
Movement	expressionism surrealism pointillism Bauhaus Color Field
Spouse	Lilly Klee
Work location	Munich Bern Weimar Düsseldorf Paris Dessau
Notable work	Sumpflegende Twittering Machine Angelus Novus
Authority control  Q44007 ISNI: 0000 0001 2137 9687 VIAF ID: 68931085 GND ID: 118562827 Library of Congress authority ID: n79093306 Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 11909820v IdRef ID: 026950480 NDL Authority ID: 00445847 Libraries Australia ID: 35274738 NKCR AUT ID: jn20000603401 HDS ID: 012028 SELIBR ID: 193765 National Library of Israel ID (old): 000076436 Biblioteca Nacional de España ID: XX838488 Nationale Thesaurus voor Auteurs ID: 068448554 NORAF ID: 90102567 NUKAT ID: n98030015 NLP ID (old): A11818153 National Library of Korea ID: KAC199615049 Libris-URI: 97mpq03t2rhw9r5 PLWABN ID: 9810703173205606 National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007263903805171 CiNii Books author ID: DA00370779 SBN author ID: CFIV024438 Open Library ID: OL88710A Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren author ID: klee020 Union List of Artist Names ID: 500010493 MusicBrainz artist ID: 4a09a48e-e7aa-4322-b59a-bcea29b7e140 RKDartists ID: 44622 SIKART ID: 4000058 Itaú Cultural ID: pessoa510681/paul-klee Europeana entity: agent/base/60816 Reasonator Scholia PetScan statistics WikiMap Locator tool KML file Search depicted

Copyright[edit]

Note: Some of the copyright information below may be outdated. In particular, works published before 1928 are now out of copyright in the United States though such works may still be copyrighted in other countries. Switzerland had a copyright term of 50 years p.m.a. until 1993, and the extension to 70 years p.m.a. made in 1993 did not restore already expired copyrights. As Paul Klee died in 1940, the copyright on his works therefore expired on January 1, 1991 in Switzerland. Copyright in countries with 70 years p.m.a. (e.g. European Union) expired on January 1, 2011. Whether works by Paul Klee published after 1927 are in the public domain in the U.S., too, therefore depends on whether the individual work in question is considered to be a work from Switzerland. This may be difficult to determine in some cases, as Klee lived for a long time in Germany, but emigrated back to Switzerland in 1933 where he then lived for the rest of his life. It can probably be assumed that works by Klee published prior to 1928 are free both in the U.S., in Switzerland and in Germany as in the rest of the EU, as well as works first published in Switzerland after 1933 (because, as Swiss works, they lost their copyright in the country of origin in 1991 and were thus not protected on the URAA date of January 1, 1996). Klee works published from 1928 to 1933 may not be in the public domain in the U.S.

Summarizing[edit]

• Switzerland has a copyright term of 50 years p.m.a. until 1993, and did not restore already expired copyrights, so Paul Klee's copyright expired there on 1991-01-01;
• The European Union (including Germany) has a copyright term of 70 years p.m.a., so Paul Klee's copyright expired there on 2011-01-01;
• The United States was not a party to the Berne Convention until 1989, and therefore has a different copyright regime for works published before 1978-01-01. For these works, copyright expires 95 years from publication or 120 years from creation, whichever is shorter. Paul Klee's last works published in Germany may be copyrighted in the United States until 2029-01-01 (1933+95), and Klee's last unpublished works made in his German period may be copyrighted until 2054-01-01 (1933+120). However, this only applies to works where the country of origin is Germany, not Switzerland.

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