Of Angels and Doubles: Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus from Berlin to Jerusalem
About This Event
Of Angels and Doubles: Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus from Berlin to Jerusalem is a live program at The Jewish Museum that traces the Angelus Novus and its passage from Berlin to Jerusalem. Klee, a Swiss-born artist who worked in Germany, developed a personal visual language shaped by expressionist intensity, cubist structure and surreal shifts; his paintings and drawings are on view at the museum in Paul Klee: Other Possible Worlds.
About Angelus Novus
Angelus Novus is a 1920 monoprint by the Swiss-German artist Paul Klee, created using the oil transfer method he invented. It is now in the collection of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
About the Artist
Paul Klee
Paul Klee was a Swiss-born artist who worked in Germany and developed a personal visual language shaped by early modern currents, from expressionist intensity to cubist structure and surreal shifts in logic.