The German artist Paul Klee was born in the small Swiss town of Münchenbuchsee in 1879, into a family of musicians. Despite his prodigious talent on the violin, music didn’t appeal to him. As a teenager, Klee rebelled, and began painting landscapes. “I didn’t find the idea of going in for music creatively particularly attractive,” he explained, “in view of the decline in the history of musical achievement.” Klee eventually became known for his experiments with Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism, and for his writings on color theory. And he loved nature his whole life, studying books such as Goethe’s The Metamorphosis of Plants. This exhibition looks to his ongoing fascination with nature, traced from those early days to his mature works. —Elena Clavarino