Cathrin Klingsohr-Leroy (b. 1958) studied art history, archaeology and German literature in Regensburg, Bonn and Paris. She wrote her doctoral thesis on The Artist Portrait in the French Grand Siecle . Previously curator of the Fritz Winter Foundation at the Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen in Munich, she is currently director of the Franz Marc Museum in Kochel am See. She has published works on Lyonel Feininger, Lovis Corinth, Franz Marc and the Blue Rider and in particular on Paul Klee.