When painting and drawing, Paul Klee often used both sides of the picture support, whether paper, cardboard or canvas. In around 600 of a total of 9,600 works, there are drawings, watercolours or paintings on the reverse side. 

This remarkable phenomenon extends over all the phases of the artist’s career. Often the versos are more than mere supports for rejected ideas. They are part of an open, continuing working process, in which Klee connected the recto and verso in terms of form and content, as well as pictorially. The exhibition invites the viewer to discover this hidden treasure.

Curator: Marie Kakinuma

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Fokus. Klee's versos 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.
Smaller focus exhibitions with a thematic reference to Paul Klee and his work are shown in one room at a time.