Edited and presented by Christine Hopfengart
Klee and Kandinsky – their names enjoy world renown, their works hang in museums and exhibitions – yet their correspondence has remained unpublished to this day. The Edition Klee-Kandinsky: Correspondence – Art Gifts – Photographs now closes this gap.
Image gallery
Nina Kandinsky, Lily Klee, Wassily Kandinsky und Paul Klee bei einem Ausflug nach Wörlitz, 1931/32
Paul Klee, ein Paar Götter, Aquarell auf Karton, 1924
It offers many unknown insights into the lives and afterlife of the two artists, unfolding a contemporary historical panorama from the imperial era to the end of the 1970s.
Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky were friends, though never completely distant. They met in Munich at the Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider), taught together at the Bauhaus, and maintained contact as émigrés in Bern and Paris. Parallel to their personal encounters, they maintained a long-standing correspondence, exchanged paintings and publications, and captured their neighborly coexistence in photographs.
This edition documents all forms of their dialogue in words and images for the first time. This includes their wives and partners – Lily Klee, Gabriele Münter, and Nina Kandinsky – who partially oversaw the correspondence. Klee's son Felix also plays a special role; together with Nina Kandinsky, he played a key role in shaping the two artists' international impact after World War II.
Christine Hopfengart, former director of the Paul Klee Foundation in Bern, and editor of the correspondence, presents the multifaceted exchange between Klee and Kandinsky in a reading with assigned roles and biographical images.
- Admission and participation free
- No registration required
Dates
June 2025
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