Fokus.
Florence Henri (1893–1982)

Florence Henri was a real globetrotter of modernism. Born in New York in 1893, she lived with her family in Paris, Munich, Vienna and finally the Isle of Wight in England. As a young woman she stayed with her aunt in Rome, where she studied piano at the conservatoire.

During a stay in Berlin in the 1910s she met the avant-garde art scene and began to study painting. She later continued her studies at the Académie Moderne in Paris. In April 1927, she attended the Bauhaus in Dessau, where Lucia Moholy-Nagy encouraged her to take up photography. Early in 1928, she abandoned painting entirely, and over the following years devoted herself to experimental photography. 

Curators: Roberto Lacarbonara und Giovanni Battista Martini

Fokus. Florence Henri (1893–1982)is part of the permanent exhibition Kosmos Klee. The Collection

The permanent exhibition Kosmos Klee. The Collection 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.