The encounter between the Sezon Group and modern art began with a Paul Klee exhibition in 1961. Twenty years later, to commemorate the centenary of Klee’s birth, a major retrospective exhibition featuring 236 representative works was organized once again.
Drawn primarily from the collection of the Paul Klee Foundation at the Kunstmuseum Bern—which holds some 9,000 works by Klee—as well as works owned by his son, Felix Klee (1907–1990), the exhibition included many pieces that had rarely, if ever, been shown publicly. Another distinctive feature was the inclusion of works from the Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, which at the time held one of the largest collections of Klee’s works outside Bern.
The exhibition provided a comprehensive overview of Klee’s artistic development, tracing his career from his early works and etchings, through the transformative impact of his journey to Tunisia and his discovery of color, to his mature years as a professor at the Bauhaus and finally his late works.
The Sezon Museum of Modern Art holds four works by Paul Klee, including Sirenen-Eier (1939), which was featured in this exhibition.