HUMLEBAEK.- The major exhibition of the autumn at the Louisiana Museum explores for the first time the relationship between the Cobra movement (1948-51) and the Swiss artist Paul Klee’s (1879-1940) works and artistic thinking. For artists like Asger Jorn, Carl-Henning Pedersen, Ejler Bille and Corneille, Klee’s art seemed to show the way forward after the war. They encountered them in publications as early as the 1930s; later came the first exhibitions in Denmark and Holland and – most significantly – the later legendary showing of more than 300 of Klee’s works at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam in 1948. Like Klee, the Danish abstract artists were seeking the directness and spontaneity of the child’s simple, powerful expression, and the discovery of children’s ability to express themselves in pictures was an important source of artistic inspiration for both Klee and the Cobra painters.