Felix Klee

Felix Klee (30 November 1907 – 13 August 1990) was a German-Swiss art historian and theater director.

Early life Felix Klee was born to painter Paul Klee and pianist Lily Klee (née Stumpf) in Schwabing, Munich. Because of the demands of Lily Klee's work as a concert pianist and piano instructor, Paul Klee took on the majority of child-rearing responsibilities, overseeing Felix's physical and artistic development. Paul Klee gave Felix a puppet theater for his 9th birthday, eventually creating 50 hand puppets, of which 30 have been preserved.

In 1921, Felix and his mother joined Paul Klee in Weimar, a year after his father began teaching at the Bauhaus, relocating again in 1926 after the school's move to Dessau.

Later career Klee assumed partial control of his father's estate in 1952, after four years of litigation against the Klee Society. This group of Swiss collectors had acquired the estate from Lily Klee in 1946, who believed her son to be dead and wished to avoid the estate's sale by the Swiss Government as war reparations. Felix Klee received 1,450 of the 4,000 works originally sold by Lily, with the rest being retained by the Klee Society's successor, the Paul Klee Foundation.

Personal life Klee was married to singer Efrossina Gréschowa from 1932

Death Felix Klee died in Bern, Switzerland on August 13, 1990.