Paul Klee often used both sides of the picture support - paper, cardboard or canvas - when painting and drawing. Around 600 of his total of 9,600 works have drawings, watercolors or paintings on the reverse side. This remarkable phenomenon extends across all of the artist's creative phases.

The reverse sides are often more than just carriers of discarded ideas. They are part of an open, ongoing work process in which Klee linked the front and reverse sides in terms of form, content and imagery. The exhibition invites visitors to discover this hidden treasure.

Curator: Marie Kakinuma

Focus. Klee's reverse sides 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.
In one room, smaller focus exhibitions with a thematic reference to Paul Klee and his work are shown.


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