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Hans Fischli (1909–1989)

Hans Fischli was a Swiss architect, artist and student of Paul Klee, Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky at the Bauhaus. After his return to Switzerland in the late 1920s, he produced a large series of coloured pencil and India ink drawings entitled Zellengebilde (cell formations).

Some of these works were made during his three-month imprisonment for refusing military service. The title of the series refers to the prison cell in which the works were made, and serves as the starting point for the exhibition, which uses three architectural projects to address the political situation in the 1930s and 1940s.

Curators: Fredi Fischli und Niels Olsen

Fokus. Hans Fischli (1909–1989) 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.