Yves Klein Art Prints

The French painter and sculptor Yves Klein was born in 1928 and died in 1962. He was a protagonist of the post-war artistic avant-garde movement. A painter of Anthropometries and Monochromes, he also perfected the Klein Blue and was the co-founder of New Realism.Yves Klein was born to artist parents: the painter Frédéric Klein and Marie Raymond. He was educated at the Ecole Nationale de la Marine Marchande and the École Nationale des Langues Orientales in Nice. In his artistic work, Klein maintained a very special relationship with the body. Klein was also greatly inspired by The Rosicrucian Cosmogony of the Rosicrucian mystic, Max Heindel, and Bachelard who were to form the foundations of the thinking that fed his work.