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"Yves Klein: Germany" shows through various images the story of the relationship between Yves Klein and Germany: mutual influences, collaborations, successful encounters, exchanges, travels... Many anecdotes and documents, often unpublished before, demonstrate through reproductions of works, photographs, letters and various documents, the many important steps (Paris, Düsseldorf, Gelsenkirchen, Krefeld) during which Klein forged links with Germany. Flipping through those pages, many important figures of the German artistic scene are evoked: Otto Piene, Norbert Kricke, Heinz Mack, Günther Uecker, Alfred Schmela, Paul Wember...