Florence Henri was a true globetrotter of modernity. Born in New York in 1893, she lived with her family in Paris, Munich, Vienna and finally on the Isle of Wright in England. As a teenager, she stayed with her aunt in Rome, where she studied piano at the music conservatory.

During a stay in Berlin in the 1910s, she became acquainted with the avant-garde art scene and began to study painting. She later continued her studies at the Académie Moderne in Paris. In April 1927, she visited the Bauhaus in Dessau, where she was encouraged to take up photography by Lucia Moholy-Nagy. At the beginning of 1928, she gave up painting completely and devoted the following years to experimental photography.

Curators: Roberto Lacarbonara and Giovanni Battista Martini

Focus. Florence Henri (1893-1982) is part of the permanent exhibition Cosmos 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 changed regularly.
In one room, smaller focus exhibitions with a thematic reference to Paul Klee and his work are shown.


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