Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds
Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds, on view at the Jewish Museum in New York City (5th Ave at 92nd St) through July 26, 2026, is billed as the first US museum exhibition to focus on Paul Klee’s late work made in response to the fascism of the 1930s. The show presents around 100 paintings and drawings spanning Klee’s career, with rarely shown works from the 1930s to 1940s, and traces his departure from the Bauhaus and his experience amid political upheaval before his death in 1940. It recounts how Klee resigned from the Bauhaus in 1931, was later dismissed from the Düsseldorf Academy after the National Socialists labeled his art “degenerate,” and faced scleroderma beginning in 1935. Curated by Mason Klein and organized by the Jewish Museum in collaboration with the Zentrum Paul Klee and the Kunstmuseum Bern, the exhibition frames Klee’s late practice as a search for new visual languages of critique and nonconformism under oppression.
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This story was covered in Restitution Reckonings and Museums on the Brink