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13/4/2010

Paul Klee (1879 - 1940)

Musee National de l'Orangerie, Paris

General curator: Emmanuel Bréon. Director of the Musée de l’Orangerie
Scientific curators:
Philippe Büttner. Curator at the Beyeler Foundation, Riehen/Basel
Marie-Madeleine Massé. Curator at the Musée de l'Orangerie

This exhibition has been organised by the Musée d'Orsay and the Musée National de l’Orangerie with the exceptional support of the Beyeler Foundation.

This exhibition brings together a selection of twenty-six masterpieces that includes both paintings and drawings. Seventeen of these works are from the Beyeler Foundation. They demonstrate the central role of Paul Klee’s work within the collection that Ernst Beyeler, a gallery owner from Basle, and his wife Hildy, took over sixty years to create.

Starting out as an art dealer in 1947, Ernst Beyeler, who died recently, took an interest in Paul Klee’s work very early on. From the 1950s, he bought Klee’s drawings and paintings from private collections in Switzerland and Germany. Later, he acquired works from the artist’s son, Felix Klee, as well as from
international collectors.

Yet it was the artist’s later works that attracted Beyeler’s attention above all. He describes the incredible unfolding of Klee’s expressive powers, linked, in his view, to the illness that beset the artist at the end of his life, and that he compared to “a move towards another, tragic dimension, towards a dramatic vision that includes other worlds”.

The selection of Klee’s works presented at this exhibition reflects three phases of the artist’s work: the
period of the First World War, the years as a teacher at the Bauhaus and then in Düsseldorf (1920-1933), and finally the return to Switzerland (1933-1940). It also reflects Beyeler’s preference for the “later Klee”, who, after the Nazis took over, felt he had to abandon his delicate colour harmonies in favour of a harsher style that he developed using coloured backgrounds punctuated by strong black and brown lines.

The exhibition of Klee works at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris is another Fondation Beyeler collaborative project abroad. With the showing of some of our exhibitions and works from the Collection abroad, they are accessible to more art-minded people to see and enjoy.

The current exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler is devoted to Henri Rousseau (until 9th May 2010). Thanks to the collaboration with the Musée d’Orsay and Musée de l’Orangerie, it has been possible to include an important group of Rousseau works from the two museums.

Image: Paul Klee (1879-1940)Tiges / Halme1938, 6Painting à la colle on paper on card laid on cardH. 50; W. 35 cmBeyeler Foundation in Riehen / Basle© ADAGP, Paris 2010 - Fondation Beyeler / Photo Peter Schibli

Further information and press material available from:
Marie Dussaussoy: +33 (0)1 40 49 49 20 – presse@musee-orsay.fr
Ghislaine Mahé: + 33 (0)1 44 50 43 38 – ghislaine.mahe@culture.gouv.fr
Catherine Schott, tel. + 41 (0)61 645 97 21, fax + 41 (0)61 645 97 39, presse@beyeler.com Fondation Beyeler, Riehen

Musée National de l'Orangerie
Jardin des Tuileries 75001 Paris.
Hours
Daily 9 a.m.-6 p.m. (last entrance h 5,45 p.m.), thuesday closed

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