Fokus. Florence Henri (1893–1982)

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.

We cordially invite you and your friends to the vernissage!

Speakers:

Nina Zimmer
Director Kunstmuseum Bern – Zentrum Paul Klee

Giovanni Battista Martini
Commissaire d’exposition et directeur des Archives Florence Henri

Roberto Lacarbonara
Curator

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