This exhibition contradicts the widespread image – also often applied to his work – of Paul Klee as an austere pedagogue, a school-masterly teacher and a meticulous bookkeeper of his oeuvre. Klee was a rebel and a connoisseur, although not the chauvinistic rake of the artistic cliché, as propagated by some of his fellow artists at the time. As a schoolboy, an art student and a soldier in the First World War, Klee resisted authoritarian behaviour with ironic detachment. He enjoyed life privately, he liked cooking, enjoyed a glass of red wine and smoked a pipe and cigars. He particularly enjoyed spending his holidays in the South, as the landscape, the warmth and Mediterranean cookery held a particular appeal for him. The exhibition shows surprising sides of the artist as well as hedonistic, free-spirit tendencies which tend to be viewed with a rather critical eye in the present day.