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...There's more than a little humor in Klee's angels too. About 35 of the late works, mostly pencil drawings, are devoted to his unique celestial hierarchy. His are not stereotypic seraphim but more fragile, bemusing creatures who weep and clap for joy. According to art historian Werner Haftmann, Klee was long bedeviled by a childlike couplet of his own invention that kept running through his head: Einst werd ich liegen im Nirgend, bei einem Engel irgend, a rhyming play on words which roughly translates as, "One of these days I shall lie in nothingness, beside an angel...
Inside, the 8,020-sq.-ft. gallery space offers a tabula rasa for which Director Werner Haftmann, 56, must act as a kind of architect-curator. Each time he mounts an exhibition, he will not only have to hang the pictures on the walls but also hang the walls-movable partitions that can be suspended in any arrangement by means of wires from the roof. "This is a very great work," said Director Haftmann last week. "But we've got to learn how to use it." For opening day, he showed that he is learning fast by mounting...
...awarded regardless of national boundaries." Alloway spent a year and a half traveling in 30 countries to choose entries for the 1964 Guggenheim International, and the jury that then picked the winners included Painter Hans Hofmann, Arnold Rüdlinger, director of the Kunsthalle in Basel, and Werner Haftmann, German art historian. The jury also gave prizes of $2,500 each to Wifredo Lam, a Cuban who works in Italy; Robert Motherwell of the U.S.; Spain's Antoni Tapies and Victor de Vasarely, a Hungarian who lives in France...
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