Paul Klee

Summary information

Date

Tue Dec 20 1949 until Sun Feb 19 1950

Location

MoMA ^{type:exhibition building spaces}
11 West 53rd St. ^{type:thoroughfare names}

Carried out by

The Museum of Modern Art

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1949

1950

October 1949

November 1949

December 1949

January 1950

February 1950

March 1950

April 1950

Paul Klee

Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection

Recent Acquisitions

Design Show: Christmas 1949

Paintings from the Museum Collection

Roots of French Photography

Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art

Percival Goodman War Memorial Model

Photographs of Picasso by Gjon Mili and by Robert Capa

Picasso, The Sculptor's Studio

Recent Acquisitions

Concurrent exhibitions grouped by organisation

#	Start	End	Title
1	1946-07	1954-09	Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection
2	1949-10	1950-01	Recent Acquisitions
3	1949-11	1950-01	Design Show: Christmas 1949
4	1949-11	1950-04	Paintings from the Museum Collection
5	1949-11	1950-01	Roots of French Photography
6	1949-12	1950-03	Children's Holiday Carnival of Modern Art
7	1950-01	1950-02	Percival Goodman War Memorial Model
8	1950-01	1950-03	Photographs of Picasso by Gjon Mili and by Robert Capa
9	1950-01	1950-03	Picasso, The Sculptor's Studio
10	1950-01	1950-05	Recent Acquisitions

Artists

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Paul Klee

Biographical statement German, born Switzerland. 1879–1940

Born 1879 ^{(click to view other people born in this year)}

Died 1940

Nationality German

Gender Male

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Exhibitions

In this dataset, Paul Klee was involved in 183 exhibitions across 9 decades.

Decade(s) with the most number of exhibitions was the 1940s with 28 exhibitions.
Decade with the least number of exhibitions was the 2010s with 8 exhibitions.

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1930-03	1930-04	Crown Building	Weber, Klee, Lehmbruck, Maillol
2	1930-06	1930-09	Crown Building	Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture
3	1931-03	1931-04	Crown Building	German Painting and Sculpture
4	1932-06	1932-10	MoMA	Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture
5	1932-07	1932-10	MoMA	A Brief Survey of Modern Painting
6	1933-07	1933-09	MoMA	Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture
7	1933-10	1933-10	MoMA	Modern European Art
8	1934-07	1934-09	MoMA	New Acquisitions: Lachaise Torso; Prints
9	1934-08	1934-09	MoMA	Color Reproductions: Modern Watercolors and Pastels
10	1934-11	1935-01	MoMA	Modern Works of Art: 5th Anniversary Exhibition
11	1935-06	1935-09	MoMA	Summer Exhibition: The Museum Collection and a Private Collection on Loan
12	1936-01	1936-02	MoMA	New Acquisitions: The Collection of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
13	1936-03	1936-04	MoMA	Cubism and Abstract Art
14	1936-04	1936-09	MoMA	Modern Painters and Sculptors as Illustrators
15	1936-12	1937-01	MoMA	Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism
16	1937-04	1937-05	MoMA	Twelve Modern Paintings
17	1938-12	1939-01	Rockefeller Center	Bauhaus: 1919–1928
18	1939-05	1939-09	MoMA	Painting, Sculpture, Prints

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1941-05		MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
2	1941-06	1941-07	MoMA	Paul Klee
3	1941-07	1941-07	MoMA	Abstract Painting; Shapes of Things
4	1941-07	1941-09	MoMA	New Acquisitions: Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism
5	1941-07	1941-08	MoMA	Preliminary Course of the Bauhaus
6	1941-08	1941-09	MoMA	Ancestral Sources of Modern Painting
7	1941-09	1941-10	MoMA	Twenty Lithographs: Graphic Art Processes
8	1942-03	1942-05	MoMA	Children's Festival of Modern Art
9	1944-02	1944-05	MoMA	Modern Drawings
10	1944-05	1944-10	MoMA	Painting, Sculpture, Prints
11	1944-11	1945-05	MoMA	Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection
12	1945-02	1945-03	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
13	1945-03	1945-03	MoMA	What is Modern Painting?
14	1945-06	1946-02	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture
15	1945-11	1946-02	MoMA	Museum of Modern Art Color Reproductions
16	1946-02	1946-02	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions in Painting and Sculpture
17	1946-02	1946-05	MoMA	The Museum Collection of Painting
18	1946-06	1946-10	MoMA	Designed for Children
19	1946-07	1946-09	MoMA	Paintings from New York Private Collections
20	1946-07	1954-09	MoMA	Paintings, Sculpture, and Graphic Arts from the Museum Collection
21	1946-10	1946-11	MoMA	On Being a Cartoonist
22	1948-07	1948-09	MoMA	New York Private Collections
23	1948-10	1948-10	MoMA	Print Gift of Victor S. Riesenfeld and Matisse: Jazz: Gift of the Artist
24	1948-11	1949-01	MoMA	Timeless Aspects of Modern Art
25	1949-03	1949-04	MoMA	Pictures for Children Aged 3–12 Years
26	1949-05	1949-07	MoMA	Master Prints from the Museum Collection
27	1949-10	1949-12	MoMA	Modern Art in Your Life
28	1949-12	1950-02	MoMA	Paul Klee

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1950-01	1950-05	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
2	1950-07	1950-11	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
3	1951-06	1951-09	MoMA	Selections from 5 New York Private Collections
4	1952-05	1952-06	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
5	1952-12		MoMA	Gallery Expansion and New Acquisitions
6	1953-06	1953-10	MoMA	Summer Exhibition: New Acquisitions; Recent American Prints, 1947–1953; Katherine S. Dreier Bequest; Kuniyoshi and Spencer; Expressionism in Germany; Varieties of Realism
7	1954-07	1954-09	MoMA	Prints by Paul Klee
8	1954-10	1955-02	MoMA	XXVth Anniversary Exhibition: Paintings from the Museum Collection
9	1954-12	1955-02	MoMA	Modern Masterprints of Europe
10	1955-03	1955-04	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection: New Acquisitions
11	1955-05	1955-05	MoMA	Prints from Europe and Japan; Etchings by Matisse
12	1955-05	1955-09	MoMA	Paintings from Private Collections
13	1957-01	1957-02	MoMA	Drawings Recently Acquired for the Museum Collection
14	1957-10	1957-12	MoMA	German Art of the 20th Century
15	1957-11	1958-01	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
16	1958-04	1958-05	Rockefeller Guest House	50 Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bareiss
17	1958-10		MoMA	Second Floor Permanent Collection
18	1958-10	1958-11	MoMA	Philip L. Goodwin Collection
19	1958-10	1958-11	MoMA	Works of Art: Given or Promised
20	1958-12	1959-02	MoMA	Ten European Artists

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1960-04		Parke-Bernet Galleries	Fifty Modern Paintings and Sculpture Especially Donated for the Benefit of the 30th Anniversary Fund of The Museum of Modern Art
2	1960-05	1960-09	MoMA	Portraits from the Museum Collection
3	1960-10	1961-01	MoMA	100 Drawings from the Museum Collection
4	1960-12	1961-02	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions
5	1961-02	1961-03	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the James Thrall Soby Collection
6	1961-08	1962-01	MoMA	Modern Allegories
7	1962-11	1963-01	MoMA	Lettering by Hand
8	1963-08	1963-09	MoMA	60 Modern Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
9	1964-05	1965-03	MoMA	Drawings from the Museum Collections: A Selection
10	1964-05		MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
11	1965-02	1965-04	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
12	1965-04	1965-07	MoMA	John S. Newberry: A Memorial Exhibition
13	1966-10	1967-05	MoMA	Drawings from the Museum Collection
14	1966-12	1967-01	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: Five European Painters
15	1967-03		MoMA	Members Collect Retrospective Exhibition
16	1967-03	1967-05	MoMA	Members Collect
17	1967-06	1967-09	MoMA	The Artist as His Subject
18	1968-01	1968-03	MoMA	The Sidney and Harriet Janis Collection
19	1968-06		MoMA	Fifteen Klees
20	1968-06	1968-08	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
21	1968-11	1969-02	MoMA	The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age
22	1969-02	1969-03	MoMA	Drawings: Recent Acquisitions
23	1969-05	1969-09	MoMA	Twentieth-Century Art from the Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller Collection
24	1969-11	1973-01	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection
25	1969-12	1970-03	MoMA	40 Prints from the Collection

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1970-06	1970-09	MoMA	Recent Acquisitons VI
2	1971-05	1971-10	MoMA	A Selection of Drawings and Watercolors from the Museum Collection
3	1971-07	1971-09	MoMA	The Artist as Adversary
4	1971-07	1971-11	MoMA	Ways of Looking
5	1972-03		MoMA	Permanent Collection
6	1972-10	1973-01	MoMA	Philadelphia in New York: 90 Modern Works from the Philadelphia Museum of Art
7	1973-03	1973-06	MoMA	Works on Paper
8	1973-10	1974-02	MoMA	Published in Germany, 1923
9	1974-08	1974-11	MoMA	Gods, Heroes, and Shepherds
10	1974-08	1974-11	MoMA	German Drawing: The Expressionists
11	1975-03	1975-06	MoMA	Points of View
12	1975-03	1975-06	MoMA	In the Twenties
13	1976-02	1976-05	MoMA	Cubism and Its Affinities
14	1976-05	1976-08	MoMA	Prints from the Collection
15	1976-08	1976-11	MoMA	Between World Wars: Drawing in Europe and America
16	1976-11	1977-03	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
17	1976-12	1977-03	MoMA	European Master Paintings from Swiss Collections: Post-Impressionism to World War II
18	1978-04	1978-07	MoMA	A Treasury of Modern Drawing: The Joan and Lester Avnet Collection
19	1978-09	1978-11	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: Painting and Sculpture
20	1979-01	1979-04	MoMA	Paul Klee Centennial: Prints and Transfer Drawings
21	1979-08	1979-11	MoMA	Gifts of Drawing
22	1979-11	1980-01	MoMA	Art of the Twenties

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1980-10	1981-01	MoMA	Masterpieces from the Collection: Selections from the Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Centuries
2	1980-12	1981-03	MoMA	The Symbolist Aesthetic
3	1981-03	1981-06	MoMA	Recent Acquisitions: Drawings
4	1981-08	1981-10	MoMA	Words and Pictures
5	1982-03	1982-03	British Museum	A Century of Modern Drawing, 1881–1981
6	1983-10	1984-01	MoMA	The Modern Drawing: 100 Works on Paper from The Museum of Modern Art
7	1984-05		MoMA	Selections from the Permanent Collection: Drawings
8	1984-05		MoMA	Selections from the Permanent Collection: Painting and Sculpture
9	1984-05		MoMA	Selections from the Permanent Collection: Prints and Illustrated Books
10	1985-05	1985-12	MoMA	The Expressionist Idiom
11	1985-05	1985-10	MoMA	Drawing in Austria and Germany
12	1985-10	1986-01	MoMA	Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910–1980
13	1986-05	1986-09	MoMA	Naked/Nude
14	1987-02	1987-05	MoMA	Paul Klee
15	1987-06	1987-10	MoMA	Drawing since 1940
16	1987-08	1987-12	MoMA	Surrealist Prints from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art
17	1987-10	1988-03	MoMA	European Drawing Between the Wars
18	1987-11	1988-03	MoMA	Master Prints from the Collection
19	1988-11	1989-03	MoMA	Abstractions
20	1989-03	1989-07	MoMA	Watercolors: Selections from the Permanent Collection
21	1989-04	1989-08	MoMA	Master Prints from the Collection
22	1989-08	1989-11	MoMA	The Cubist Imprint
23	1989-11	1990-03	MoMA	Prints: Proofs and Variants

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	1990-03	1990-07	MoMA	Figurative Inventions
2	1990-07	1990-09	MoMA	Drawing in Europe, 1881–1938
3	1990-11	1991-03	MoMA	Still Life Into Object
4	1991-01	1991-03	MoMA	Artist's Choice: Chuck Close, Head-On/The Modern Portrait
5	1991-02	1991-04	MoMA	Art of the Forties
6	1991-11	1992-03	MoMA	Master Prints from the Collection
7	1992-05	1992-07	MoMA	Modern Drawing, 1881–1938: Selections from the Collection
8	1992-09		MoMA	Selections from the Collection
9	1992-09	1993-02	MoMA	Selections from the Collection
10	1993-07		MoMA	Selections from the Permanent Collection of Painting and Sculpture
11	1993-07	1993-09	MoMA	Pastimes in Prints
12	1993-09		MoMA	Modern Drawing: A Selection from the Collection, 1884–1961
13	1994-01	1994-05	MoMA	Three Masters of the Bauhaus: Lyonel Feininger, Vasily Kandinsky, and Paul Klee
14	1995-07	1995-10	MoMA	The Human Figure: A Modern Vision
15	1996-02	1996-05	MoMA	Deformations: Apects of the Modern Grotesque
16	1996-06	1996-09	MoMA	From Bauhaus to Pop: Masterworks Given by Philip Johnson
17	1997-02	1997-05	MoMA	Fantastic Prints
18	1997-05	1997-08	MoMA	Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life
19	1997-09	1998-02	MoMA	From Henri Toulouse Lautrec to Andy Warhol: Exploring Techniques
20	1999-01	1999-05	MoMA	Sight Gags: Caricature, Grotesque, and Wit in Modern and Contemporary Drawing
21	1999-05	1999-07	MoMA	Collecting in Depth: Drawings by Grosz, Schwitters, Ernst, and Klee
22	1999-10	2000-02	MoMA	Language of the Body
23	1999-11	2000-03	MoMA	Modern Starts: Things

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2000-03	2000-09	MoMA	The Raw and the Cooked
2	2000-04	2000-09	MoMA	Seeing Double
3	2002-06	2004-09	MoMA	To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection
4	2003-09	2004-03	MoMA	Pencil: Drawings from the Collection
5	2004-11	2005-03	MoMA	Drawings from the Modern 1880–1945
6	2004-11		MoMA	Painting and Sculpture: Inaugural Installation
7	2005-10	2006-01	MoMA	Between Representation and Abstraction
8	2006-01	2006-12	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture Changes 2006
9	2006-01	2006-04	MoMA	The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now
10	2006-05	2006-10	MoMA	Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part 2
11	2006-11	2007-04	MoMA	Focus: Paul Klee
12	2007-01	2007-12	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture Changes 2007
13	2008-01	2008-12	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture Changes 2008
14	2008-07	2008-11	MoMA	Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities
15	2009-01	2009-12	MoMA	Painting and Scultpure Changes 2009
16	2009-11	2010-01	MoMA	Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity

#	Start	End	Location	Title
1	2010-01	2010-12	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture Changes 2010
2	2010-01	2010-12	MoMA	Public Spaces Changes
3	2010-11	2011-02	MoMA	On Line: Drawing through the Twentieth Century
4	2011-10	2012-02	MoMA	Gifted: Collectors and Drawings at MoMA, 1929–1983
5	2012-01	2012-12	MoMA	Public Spaces Changes 2012
6	2012-01	2012-12	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture Changes 2012
7	2012-02	2012-05	MoMA	Printin,' in conjunction with the exhibition, Print/Out
8	2013-01	2013-12	MoMA	Painting and Sculpture Changes 2013

Paul Klee

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Artists

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Paul Klee

Exhibitions

1930s (18)

1940s (28)

1950s (20)

1960s (25)

1970s (22)

1980s (23)

1990s (23)

2000s (16)

2010s (8)

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