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cobra museum
Klee and Cobra cobra museum
of modern art
of modern art
Practical information
www.cobra-museum.nl
A Child+s Play
Admission .3 2.50 surcharge0
Adults: 1 12.00 / Children under 6: free .except groups0 / Ages 6-18:
1 5.00 / Museum Card holders: surcharge only / Amsterdam and
Amstelveen City Pass Holders: 1 7.50.
,Since Paul Klee, all artists are self-taught+
- Pablo Picasso
Exhibition catalogue
The exhibition is accompanied by the catalogue, Klee and Cobra:
A Child+s Play , available in Dutch .published by Ludion; price:
1 27.90. English or German .Hatje Cantz Verlag; price: 1 39.800.
The impressive oeuvre of Paul Klee .1879-19400 reveals
an exceptional desire to experiment. The Netherlands
first became acquainted with Klee+s work in 1948, when
Tours by appointment
Private tours of the exhibition by experienced art historians are
available for groups .up to 20 persons0. The fee per group is 1 100.00
for tours in English, French or German, 1 90.00 for a tour in Dutch.
Please book your tour in advance by contacting us at
+31 .0020 5475031 or activiteiten@cobra-museum.nl.
Sunday walk-in tours .Dutch0
Tours of the exhibition will take place every Sunday afternoon
from 2:00-3:00 p.m., no reservations required. The fee for the tour
is 1 5.00 .excluding museum admission0.
Children+s studios and birthday workshops
Children receive the Klee and Cobra workbook at no charge.
Children+s studios are held every Sunday from 11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m.,
free of charge, no reservations required. Workshops with artists
from Wildervanck in Kunst are available .ages 6-12, reservations
needed0. Special birthday workshops are also available.
Lloyd Hotel arrangement
the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam presented a now
legendary exhibition of the work of the Swiss artist.
The press and the public were enchanted by the world
Cobra Museum of Modern Art
www.cobra-museum.nl
Sandbergplein 1 Amstelveen NL
for more information on exhibitions
Tel. +31 .0020 5475050
and activities.
www.cobra-museum.nl
of Paul Klee. Today, the work of this modern master is
seldom seen in the Netherlands. In early 2012, with
Klee and Cobra: A Child+s Play, that will change. This
in-depth exhibition at the Cobra Museum reveals shared
Open Tue to Sun from 11-17 hours
Guided tours/activities:
fascinations on the parts of both Klee and the Cobra
Tel. +31 .0020 5475031 or
artists for the wondrous, imaginary world of the child.
activiteiten@cobra-museum.nl
© Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
© Pictoright Amsterdam 2012
Cobra artists .Karel Appel, Constant, Corneille, Euge`ne
from the Amstelveen Bus Station.
Paul Klee, Itinerant Artist, 1940,
From Schiphol or Haarlem, take the
Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, private
Brands, Asger Jorn, Pierre Alechinsky and others0 have
300 bus, from Amsterdam, the 142,
loan
been brought together for this exhibition from inter-
144, 170 or 172 bus, tramline 5, or
Constant, Night Figure, 1949, coll.
Metro line 51. By car from the A9
Karel van Stuijvenberg, Caracas
national collections.
Visitors to the exhibition who would like to spend the night in
Amsterdam can take advantage of a special arrangement with Lloyd
Hotel. Please see www.cobra-museum.nl for more information.
Amstelveen exit, follow the signs to
Design: Mart. Warmerdam
The presentation reveals similarities and differences
Stadshart .town centre0 and parking
Lithography: Gravemaker
.garages available0.
Printing: Grafinoord
between Klee and Cobra, both in their working methods
Developmental psychology with the University of
Amsterdam
Principal sponsors
A special programme has been developed around the theme of
the exhibition. Visitors are invited to participate. The programme
includes series of lectures, an on-line experiment, an interactive
weblog and a research lab at the museum.
Interactive weblog: with stories, insights and background
information on the theme of children+s drawings. Edited by Dr.
Ad Dudink, developmental psychologist, and the UvA .online from
1 February, 20120.
For more information, see: www.cobra-museum.nl/psychology.
and in their ideas about the role and the meaning of the
child in art. Klee and Cobra: A Child+s Play centres on
five themes: the imagination of the child, fantastic
animals, acrobatics, masks, aggression. Visitors will
experience how both Klee and the post-war Cobra
artists translated the free expression of children into
radical new art, which still today remains colourful,
Sponsors
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In all, over 130 masterpieces by Paul Klee and 120 by
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spontaneous, raw and pure.
Klee and Cobra has been organized in collaboration with the
Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern and the Louisiana Museum of
Modern Art in Humlebaek, Denmark.
Constant, Night Figure, 1949
Paul Klee, Itinerant Artist, 1940
Klee+ Klee+
Cobra Cobra
A Child+s Play
A Child+s Play
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Paul Klee, Hungry Girl, 1939,
Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, gift Livia
Klee
Karel Appel, Hip, Hip, Hoorah!, 1949, Tate, London, purchased with assistance from
Evelyn, Lady Downshire+s Trust Fund and the Gytha Trust, 1988
Paul Klee, Summer Landscape, 1890, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern,
private collection
A Child+s Play
In 1902, at the age of 22, Paul
Constant, Fantastic Animals, 1949, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg
The relationship between Klee and Cobra forms the
Klee rediscovered his own childhood drawings, sparking
heart of the exhibition. Around this unfolds a journey of
his interest in childhood and the creative expressions of
discovery through the entire oeuvres of Paul Klee and
children. In the drawings of his son Felix, he also found
the Cobra artists. Investigated by way of five distinct
what he himself had been searching for as a young artist:
themes, their similarities become apparent, as do their
natural, unaffected, authentic creative expression. The
differences. This results in surprising confrontations.
world of the child offered Klee and his contemporaries
The multifaceted dimensions of Paul Klee and the Cobra
an opportunity to liberate themselves from artistic
Karel Appel, Questioning Children, 1949, Stedelijk Museum,
Amsterdam
Surprising Confrontations
artists are revealed in diverse media, including oil
traditions and conventions. The Cobra artists identified
painting, works on paper, mixed media works and
with the seemingly spontaneous work of Paul Klee.
sculptures.
They worked in a similar fashion and an important part
of the power of their work can be traced back to the
Paul Klee, Untitled .Big-Eared Clown0,1925,
Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, gift Livia Klee
direct expressiveness of children.
Paul Klee, Dam, 1937, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
Klee and Cobra
For many artists in the
1940s and 1950s, Paul Klee was an important source of
inspiration. This was certainly true for a collective of
young Dutch avant-garde artists who strove to achieve
a new and spontaneous art. In 1948, together with
kindred spirits in Belgium and Denmark, they joined
forces as Cobra. Paul Klee had died eight years before,
but his work had nonetheless left an indelible impression.
Paul Klee, Girls+ Class Outdoors, 1939, Zentrum Paul
Klee, Bern, gift Livia Klee
Paul Klee, Summer Landscape, 1924, Triton Foundation
Asger Jorn, Falbo II, 1951, Canica Kunstsamling, Oslo
Corneille, Fish, 1950, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, donation Bouw- en Aannemingsbedrijf Muys & de Winter, 1964