Garten nach dem Gewitter, 1932
Paul Klee
Information
Artist
Paul Klee
1879
Münchenbuchsee bei Bern, Schweiz
1940
Locarno-Muralto, Schweiz
Work data
Material/Technique
Oil on canvas (Reconstructed frame 2024)
Dimensions
Frame: 88,5 × 119,5 × 9 cm
Signature
Bez. o.r.: "Klee"
Accession Number
0031
Catalogue Raisonné
Cat. Rais. Nr. 5973
Acquisition year
1960
Provenance
From its creation in 1932, the painting “Garten nach dem Gewitter” by Paul Klee remained the property of the artist, who gave it to the Galerie Alfred Flechtheim on consignment that year. On October 24, 1933, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler concluded an exclusive contract with Paul Klee. He subsequently took over Galerie Flechtheim’s consigned works, which arrived in Paris in January 1934. The work can be traced to Kahnweiler, owner of Galerie Simon, until October 1934, when he passed it on to J. B. Neumann in his Contempora Art Circle in New York. In 1938, Galerie Simon again loaned the work to the Exhibition of Twentieth Century German Art, which toured various cities until 1940. The work reached the Nierendorf Gallery by September 1942 at the latest. It is unclear whether Karl Nierendorf added it to his permanent gallery holdings or held it on consignment for Lily Klee, in whose ownership the work would have passed after Paul Klee’s death in 1940. At an unknown date, G. David Thompson purchased it for his collection, where it remained until it was sold to the Galerie Beyeler in Basel in 1960. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia subsequently purchased the painting “Garten nach dem Gewitter” from Galerie Beyeler together with a further 87 works by Paul Klee. They formed the basis of the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, which was founded in 1961.
Credit line
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Exhibitions
- Paul Klee. 50 Werke aus 50 Jahren (1890-1940), 12.4.-26.5.1990, Hamburger Kunsthalle
- Unser 20. Jahrhundert - Meisterwerke von Picasso bis Beuys, 14.7.-28.10.2000, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
- Paul Klee. Kleinode. Die Sammlung, 22.6.-25.8.2001, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
- Paul Klee. Erzählung und Schöpfung, 23.6.-9.12.2006, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Sakura/Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo/The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai
- Masterpieces of Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen / Meisterwerke der Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, 17.10.2008-30.5.2009, Nagoya/Tokio/Kobe
- Die Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen zu Gast in Gottorf. Picasso, Klee, Beckmann, Matisse und weitere Künstler in Schloß Gottorf, 18.7.-24.10.2009, Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Stiftung Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schloß Gottorf, Schleswig
- 100 x Paul Klee. Geschichte der Bilder, 28.9.2012-20.4.2013, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, K21 Ständehaus
- Nach Ägypten! Die Reisen von Max Slevogt und Paul Klee, 5.9.2014-3.1.2015, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, K20 Grabbeplatz
- Alfred Flechtheim.com - Kunsthändler der Avantgarde, 8.10.2013-11.1.2014, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, K20 Grabbeplatz
- Nach Ägypten! Die Reisen von Max Slevogt und Paul Klee, 29.4.-2.8.2014, Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Albertinum
- Paul Klee! Meisterwerke aus der Kunstsammlung NRW, 20.3.-18.7.2015, Kunsthalle Emden
- 100 x Paul Klee. Geschichte der Bilder, 28.9.2012-20.4.2013
- ARoS Triennial The Garden - End of Times, Beginning of Times. The Past / The Present & The Future, 7.4.-9.9.2017, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum
- museum global: Prolog: Paul Klee. Eine Sammlung auf Reisen, 12.10.2018-9.3.2019, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (K20 Grabbeplatz, Kleehalle)
- Opening the Space. Fragen der Gegenwart an Werke der Sammlung / Works from the Collection in Light of Current Issues, 26.3.-28.8.2021, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf (K20 Grabbeplatz), Henkel Galerie
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