Zentrum Paul Klee Bern Founded by Maurice E. and Martha Müller and the heirs of Paul Klee

Highlights from the Collection

Park near Lu., 1938

The picture «Park near Lu.» lives from a strong contrast between the black symbols showing the trees, branches and paths of a park, and then the surrounding colour zones like colourful foliage.

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The grey man and the coast, 1938

In «der Graue und die Küste», 1938, [The grey man and the coast], a line beginning at the top edge swings back and forth, dividing the painting into horizontal segments.

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The dart house, 1922, 56

Even four years after the end of the war, references to war themes and Paul Klee's experiences are still to be found in his work: For instance the picture «The Dart House».

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Comedian, 1904

But no other subject is so intensely dealt with in the «Inventionen» as the comedian, which comes up in three different versions.

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​Portrait of an emotional lady, 1906

In the summer of 1905, Klee started using a new medium: blackened sheets of glass, which he worked on with a needle.

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Lady Demon, 1935

Lady Demon was created in 1935 during a period of artistic helplessness and the search for new means of expression.

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Fish people, 1927

During his time as a teacher at the Bauhaus, Paul Klee made an intense study of motion in the static, gravity-bound world and in that of the dynamic.

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Two men meet, each believing the other to be of higher rank, 1903

Paul Klee's «Zwei Männer, einander in höherer Stellung vermutend, begegnen sich», 1903,[Two men meet, each believing the other to be of higher rank] is part of a group of works known as the «Inventionen» [Inventions], eleven etchings from the years 1903 to 1905, whose meticulous technique and detailed, relief-like composition is reminiscent of drawings by the Old Masters.

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Hovering, 1930

Klee explored the subject of weightlessness in paintings with a three-dimensional construction that appear to drift in space.

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Untitled (Aare landscape), 1900

The five-panelled screen «Ohne Titel (Aarelandschaft)» [Untitled (Aare Landscape)] of 1900 gives us a view of the River Aare landscape outside Bern, a landscape Paul Klee loved above all others.

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