Paul Klee stars in an exhibition at the Beyeler Museum in Basel

An exhibition dedicated to Paul Klee(Münchenbuchsee, 1879 - Muralto, 1940) is on view at the Beyeler Museum in Basel, Switzerland.
Trying his hand at music, poetry and painting, Klee finally chose the latter and became an exponent ofabstractionism: “I am abstract with some memory,” the artist himself stated in one of his writings.

The Basel exhibition hosts about a hundred works by the Swiss artist, starting in 1913. The exhibition brings together valuable loans from numerous institutions and private collections in Europe and elsewhere, including MOMA - Museum of Modern Art in New York (“Fire in the Evening,” 1929), the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo ("Tree in Bloom," 1925) and prestigious private collections. The exhibition will also feature works that are usually little exhibited and will allow people to discover Klee in a new light.

Klee, along with Picasso, is the most represented artist in the Beyeler Collection. The museum’s founder, Ernst Beyeler, supported Paul Klee’s work in multiple ways. The collector’s passion focused primarily on Klee’s late work, which he particularly appreciated for “its chromatic quality and expressive force. ”Works from this period of his life, which took his artistic production to the highest levels of simplification and abstraction, include the 1931 “Rising Star” and the 1937 "Signs in Yellow."

The exhibition unfolds in seven rooms in chronological succession, divided by theme and stylistic compositions, spanning the entire span of the artist’s life and career. From the fruitful dialogue with fellow artists in Paris and Munich in the 1910s, to the famous trip to Tunis in 1914 to his military service in World War I, to the decade at the Bauhaus from 1921 to 1931, to trips to Egypt and Italy in the late 1920s, and finally to the opulent mature work of the 1930s.

The exhibition is on view until January 28, 2018, daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.), with a museum admission fee (25 Swiss francs, about 22 euros, adults, free for children and young people under 25). For students under 30, reduced to 12 francs (about 11 euros). 20 Swiss francs (about 17 euros) the reduced rate for the disabled, the accompanying person gets in free. 20 francs also for groups of at least 20 people, school groups ticket by prior arrangement. Special offers for those reaching Basel by train. All info on the Beyeler Foundation website.

Pictured: Paul Klee, Blühendes - “Blooming” (1934; oil on canvas, 81.5 x 80 cm; Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur)

Paul Klee stars in an exhibition at the Beyeler Museum in Basel

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