The painter, born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, in 1879, grew up with a love and knack for music. His parents, a German music teacher and Swiss singer, inspired his own early talents. At age 11, ...

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In a brief memoir of his childhood in the Swiss capital Bern, Paul Klee describes taking to a field a little girl “who was not pretty and wore braces to correct her legs” and deliberately pushing her ...

A Vincent van Gogh painting put on display this week for the first time in 134 years sold for more than $15.4 million, well above its asking price, at Sotheby's Paris auction Thursday. Entertainment ...