Edmund Sullivan was born in London in 1869. He studied art with his father and at the age of twenty began contributing to various publications including the Daily Graphic, Daily Chronicle, Pall Mall Gazette, The Windsor Magazine and Punch Magazine. Sullivan was also a highly influential lecturer in book illustration at Goldsmith's College in London. Books illustrated by Sullivan included Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes , The Pirate by Walter Scott, The Rivals by Richard Brinsley …showed first 75 words of 483 total…

…showed last 75 words of 483 total…a stimulating writer on art. The most important book Klee wrote during this period was, Pedagogical Stetchbook. With the emergence of the Nazis in Germany, Klee returned to Switzerland. A large number of his paintings on display in Germany were confiscated by the Nazis as degenerate. The growth of fascism in Europe affected Klee badly and he began to suffer from acute depression. In 1935 Klee developed scleroderma, a rare debilitating disease. Paul Klee died in 1940.