New York’s Jewish Museum opens Paul Klee exhibition without its centrepiece

The Jewish Museum in New York opened "Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds" on 20 March, but without its intended centerpiece, Paul Klee’s "Angelus Novus" (1920). The work, owned by the Israel Museum since 1987, has been unable to travel from Israel because the Iran war has disrupted air mobility, so the museum is showing an authorized facsimile in a dedicated gallery. The exhibition runs until 26 July and highlights Klee’s later works responding to the rise of Nazism; Klee was targeted by Nazi persecution and his works were seized and included in the 1937 "Degenerate Art" exhibition in Munich. "Angelus Novus" was bought in 1921 by German Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin, who interpreted it as the “angel of history” in an essay written in his final year before his 1940 suicide while fleeing deportation.

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