Zentrum Paul Klee

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• Florence Henri was a real globetrotter of modernism. Born in New York in 1893, she lived in Munich, Paris, Rome and, finally, on the Isle of Wight in England. She attended the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, where Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky taught. These periods abroad played a decisive role in shaping her artistic language. More than 80 works, including drawings, paintings, photographs and collages, trace Henri’s artistic development: from the paintings of the 1920s created during her studies with Fernand Léger, through her experimental photography, to her return to abstract painting from the 1940s until her death. Curators: Roberto Lacarbonara und Giovanni Battista Martini The exhibition is organised by the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, and the Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, in collaboration with the Florence Henri Archive. Fokus. Florence Henri (1893–1982) is part of the permanent exhibition Kosmos Klee. The Collection The permanent exhibition offers visitors a chronological overview of Klee's artistic oeuvre and presents around seventy works as well as biographical material and archive items, which are regularly changed. Smaller focus exhibitions with a thematic reference to Paul Klee and his work are shown in one room at a time.
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  Fokus. Florence Henri (1893–1892)

  Until 10 Jan 2027

  
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• Die Dauerausstellung bietet Besucher:innen einen chronologischen Überblick über Klees künstlerisches Schaffen und präsentiert rund siebzig Werke sowie biografisches Material und Archivalien, die regelmässig ausgewechselt werden. Paul Klee (1879–1940) sucht als einer der bedeutendsten Künstler der Moderne nach neuen Ausdrucksformen, die den gesellschaftlichen und kulturellen Umbrüchen seiner Zeit gerecht werden. Er stellt alles in Frage, was in Europa gelehrt wird, und orientiert sich an Kinderzeichnungen und nicht-europäischen Kulturen genauso wie an den Strukturen und Prozessen der Natur. Zudem setzt er sich mit künstlerischen Bewegungen wie dem Expressionismus, dem Kubismus, dem Dadaismus, dem Surrealismus und dem Konstruktivismus auseinander, ohne sich einer dieser Gruppen anzuschliessen. Das politische Geschehen kommentiert Klee in zahlreichen Werken mit ironischer Distanz. Der Erste und der Zweite Weltkrieg haben einschneidende Folgen für Klees Leben. Seine Netzwerke brechen auseinander und führen zur Isolation des Künstlers. Im «Fokus-Raum» organisieren wir kleinere Ausstellungen mit inhaltlichem Fokus auf Paul Klees Werk sowie mit Künstler:innen oder zu Themen mit einem überraschenden Bezug zu Kees Schaffen.
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  Kosmos Klee. Die Sammlung

  Until 3 Oct 2027

  
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• The permanent exhibition offers visitors a chronological overview of Klee's artistic oeuvre and presents around seventy works as well as biographical material and archive items, which are changed regularly. As one of the most important artists of modernism, Paul Klee (1879–1940) sought new forms of expression that did justice to the social and cultural upheavals of his time. He questioned everything that was taught in Europe and orientated himself towards children's drawings and non-European cultures as well as the structures and processes of nature. He also explored artistic movements such as Expressionism, Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism and Constructivism without joining any of these groups. Klee commented on political events with ironic detachment in numerous works. The First and Second World Wars had far-reaching consequences for Klee's life. His networks broke up and led to the artist's isolation. In the ‘Fokus Room’ we organize small exhibitions with a thematic focus on particular aspects of Paul Klee's work as well as with artists and topics with surprising references to Klee's œuvre.
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  Kosmos Klee. The Collection

  Until 3 Oct 2027

  
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