senecio scheepvaartmuseum zelfs in strakke schoenen

zelfs in strakke schoenen

There is something in it that stays with you

The work is on loan from a private collection

The painting shows a city that never existed: towers and walls made of triangles

senecio scheepvaartmuseum zelfs in strakke schoenenPaul Klee painted Senecio in 1922 while working at the Bauhaus art school in Weimar. You see a round face, built up from patches of orange, pink, yellow and white. The eyes are not level. The expression is hard to place: it seems to sit somewhere between calm and confusion. The official name of the painting is 'Head of a Man Going Senile', but the face feels both childlike and wise at the same time. There is something in it that stays with you. The