Cesar Klein: Bild Raum Bühne (Anna Grosskopf)

Painting and mosaic, illustration, furniture and interior design, stage sets, and more were all part of the creative repertoire of the German polymath Cesar Klein (1876-1954), whom the Bröhan Museum is honoring with a comprehensive exhibition on the occasion of his 150th birthday. The exhibition catalog sheds light on Klein's rise as an active member of the avant-garde, a successful Expressionist film set and stage designer, and an esteemed teacher and friend to contemporaries such as Max Pechstein and Walter Gropius. 1937 marked a decisive turning point: Klein lost his professorship, followed by a ban on painting, his denunciation as a "degenerate artist," and a retreat into "inner exile." His late work suggests a new beginning-defined by mythological imagery, intense color, and a sense of musicality.

Buch (Hardcover), Deutsch, 248 Seiten