Word: einst
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...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 of some kind." Indeed, there is so much visual wordplay going on in Klee's pictorial poetry that the show...