Klee in Bern

The exhibition is devoted to Paul Klee’s diverse and changing relationship with his home city. It shows his work and activities as well as his relationship with school-friends and fellow-artists in his Berne years between 1890 and 1907.

One particular focus of the exhibition is on Klee’s Berne collectors and the exhibitions he had in Kunsthalle Berne during his lifetime. The reconstruction of the studio in the three-room flat in Kistlerweg conveys the atmosphere of his working situation in his involuntary Berne exile in Switzerland between 1934 and 1940. The large-format masterpieces he produced there form the high point of the exhibition. A chronological selection of works also grants an insight into the whole of Klee’s oeuvre.