Paul Klee Center

Paul Klee Center
	; ZPK logo
	; Zentrum Paul Klee via the A6 motorway
Data
place	Monument im ; Fruchtland 3 ; 3006 Bern ; Switzerland Coordinates: 46 ° 56 ′ 57.9 ″ N , 7 ° 28 ′ 26.1 ″ E ; CH1903: 602686 / 199,816
Art	Art museum
architect	Renzo Piano
opening	2005
Number of visitors (annually)	122,915 (2016)
operator	Roof Foundation Kunstmuseum Bern - Zentrum Paul Klee
management	Nina room
GLAM	CH-000235
KGS	8561
Website	zpk.org

Building of the Paul Klee Center

Multiple unit type NINA of the BLS with total advertising of the Zentrum Paul Klee

The Zentrum Paul Klee (ZPK) in Bern , built according to plans by Renzo Piano , opened on June 20, 2005. Since August 2016 it has been led by the art historian Nina Zimmer as the successor to Peter Fischer. Since then, Zimmer has also been the director of the Kunstmuseum Bern .

history

The focus of the cultural institution founded by the surgeon Maurice Edmond Müller is the German painter Paul Klee (1879–1940), who spent a good half of his life in Bern. Of his almost 10,000 oeuvre, 40 percent, i.e. around 4,000 paintings , watercolors and drawings , as well as archives and biographical materials, were brought together in the Zentrum Paul Klee; This makes it the world's most important collection of Klee's works. His estate had previously been kept in the Kunstmuseum Bern .

The Zentrum Paul Klee is intended to be an international competence center for the research, communication and presentation of the person, life and work of Paul Klee and its reception. With reference to the diverse artistic activities of Paul Klee, the center is therefore not limited to the presentation of Klee's visual work, but is also a platform for music, theater, dance, literature and cross-disciplinary forms of artistic expression. A special feature is the Creaviva children's museum in the center.

An exhibition about the work of Paul Klee with the title Klee en Cobra. Het Begint as a child , was on view at the Cobra Museum ( Amstelveen , Netherlands) from January 2012 to April 2012 . The exhibition was organized in collaboration with the Zentrum Paul Klee and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.

A total of 4.2 km of steel girders were required for the construction of the Zentrum Paul Klee. The exhibition area is 1800 square meters.

This is where the Summer Academy Foundation operates at the Paul Klee Center .

Quote

"It's about creating a place that corresponds to the spirit of Paul Klee, which was extraordinary in its simplicity and creativity."

- Renzo Piano, in: Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern - Die Architektur , 2006, p. 71

Movies

Museum check with Markus Brock : Kunstmuseum Bern and Zentrum Paul Klee. Synopsis and video from 3sat . First broadcast: December 3, 2017

literature

Zentrum Paul Klee (Ed.): Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2005, ISBN 3-7757-1532-0 . (Extensive catalog with enclosed CD-ROM documents .)
Zentrum Paul Klee (Ed.): Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern - The architecture. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2006, ISBN 3-7757-1549-5 .

Web links

Commons : Zentrum Paul Klee - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Website of the Paul Klee Center
Paths to Klee themed trail , private website on the Paths to Klee themed trail
Information, pictures, videos and 360 panoramas about the Zentrum Paul Klee , Bern Tourism website

Individual evidence

↑ Annual Report 2016 Zentrum Paul Klee. In: Annual report. Zentrum Paul Klee, June 9, 2017, p. 33 , accessed on March 19, 2018 (Combined Annual Report Kunstmuseum Bern, Zentrum Paul Klee and Creaviva; PDF from p. 25. PDF download 1.2 MB. Number of visitors 2016 p. 28) .
↑ Nina Zimmer becomes director of the Kunstmuseum Bern and Zentrum Paul Klee. monopol Magazin für Kunst und Leben, March 24, 2016, accessed on September 20, 2016 .
↑ ^a ^b ^c Ute Strimmer: Center Paul Klee Bern. Monumental steel caterpillar. In: G / Geschichte , No. 3/2017, pp. 76–77.
↑ Klee en Cobra. Het begins as a child ( Memento from May 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Exhibition about Paul Klee at the Cobra Museum, from January 28, 2012 to April 22, 2012, Dutch, accessed February 24, 2013
^ Sophia Zürcher: Tentoonstelling Klee en Cobra. Het begint als kind biedt veel kijkplezier ( Memento from April 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), about the exhibition Klee en Cobra , January 31, 2012, Dutch, accessed on February 24, 2013

[1] Annual Report 2016 Zentrum Paul Klee. In: Annual report. Zentrum Paul Klee, June 9, 2017, p. 33 , accessed on March 19, 2018 (Combined Annual Report Kunstmuseum Bern, Zentrum Paul Klee and Creaviva; PDF from p. 25. PDF download 1.2 MB. Number of visitors 2016 p. 28) .

[2] Nina Zimmer becomes director of the Kunstmuseum Bern and Zentrum Paul Klee. monopol Magazin für Kunst und Leben, March 24, 2016, accessed on September 20, 2016 .

[Strimmer-3] Ute Strimmer: Center Paul Klee Bern. Monumental steel caterpillar. In: G / Geschichte , No. 3/2017, pp. 76–77.

[4] Klee en Cobra. Het begins as a child ( Memento from May 14, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Exhibition about Paul Klee at the Cobra Museum, from January 28, 2012 to April 22, 2012, Dutch, accessed February 24, 2013

[5] Sophia Zürcher: Tentoonstelling Klee en Cobra. Het begint als kind biedt veel kijkplezier ( Memento from April 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), about the exhibition Klee en Cobra , January 31, 2012, Dutch, accessed on February 24, 2013