Klee museum marks birthday with major shows

Ten years after opening, the initial teething problems of the Zentrum Paul Klee have almost been forgotten. To mark the anniversary, the Bern museum is staging the world’s most comprehensive exhibition of works by Klee and Wassily Kandinsky.  “We would like to have a major exhibition at least once a year, and not just every two to three years,” Peter Fischer told swissinfo.ch. “We have a big infrastructure and it must be full of life.”  Since he took office five years ago, the museum director has had to struggle with two fundamental constraints: The Zentrum Paul Klee is too big and its running costs are too high for it to be able to function as a single-theme museum, even if Klee is one of the great icons of modern art.  “In terms of visitor numbers we are still on the low side,” Fischer said, giving the figure of 200,000 as the target. In 2014, the Zentrum drew 166,000 visitors and in 2015 the number will most likely be higher. The problems of the past are now …
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