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. 

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 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.