In 1909 Kandinsky was elected president of the newly founded Neue Künstlervereinigung München (NKVM). The group’s first show took place at Heinrich Thannhauser’s Moderne Galerie in Munich in 1909. In 1911 Kandinsky and Franz Marc began to make plans for Der Blaue Reiter Almanac, although the publication would not appear until the following year. Kandinsky’s On the Spiritual in Art was published in December 1911. He and Marc withdrew from the NKVM in that month, and shortly thereafter the Blaue Reiter group’s first exhibition was held at the Moderne Galerie. In 1912 the second Blaue Reiter show was held at the Galerie Hans Goltz, Munich. Kandinsky’s first solo show was held at Der Sturm gallery in Berlin in 1912. In 1913 one of his works was included in the Armory Show in New York and the Erste deutsche Herbstsalon at the Der Sturm gallery in Berlin. Kandinsky lived in Russia from 1914 to 1921, principally in Moscow, where he held a position at the People’s Commissariat of Education.
Kandinsky began teaching at the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1922. In 1923 he was given his first solo show in New York by the Société Anonyme, of which he became vice-president. Lyonel Feininger, Alexej Jawlensky, Kandinsky, and Paul Klee made up the Blaue Vier (Blue Four) group, formed in 1924. He moved with the Bauhaus to Dessau in 1925 and became a German citizen in 1928. The Nazi government closed the Bauhaus in 1933 and later that year Kandinsky settled in Neuilly-sur-Seine, near Paris; he acquired French citizenship in 1939. Fifty-seven of his works were confiscated by the Nazis in the 1937 purge of “degenerate art.” Kandinsky died on December 13 1944 in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
This is part 1 of a 4-part post on the works of Wassily Kandinsky. The works are shown in chronological order:
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| 1901 Poster for First Phalanx Exhibition |
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| 1901 The Isar near Grosshessolohe oil on canvas 32.5 x 23.6 cm The Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1903 Bride, Russian Beauty tempera on cardboard 41.5 x 28.8 cm The Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1903 Gabriele Munter Painting oil on canvas 58.5 x 58.5 cm The Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| c1903 Waldrand oil on canvas-board 23.8 x 32.8 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1904 Beach Baskets In Holland oil on cardboard 24 x 32.6 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1904 In the Forest 26 x 19.8 cm The Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1905 Arab City tempera on board 67.3 x 99.5 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1905 Portrait of Gabriele Münter oil on canvas 45 x 45 cm The Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1905 Rapallo-Grauer Day oil on board 24 x 33 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1905 Rapallo, Boats oil on board 24 x 33 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1906 Park of St Cloud oil on board 24 x 33 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1906 Rotterdam Sun oil on canvas © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1906-07 Couple Riding oil on canvas 55 x 50.5 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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1907 Colourful Life
tempera on canvas 130 x 162.5 cm
The Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
© 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1908 Ahtyrka. Red Church © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1908 Autumn Landscape with Boats oil on board 71 x 96.5 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1908 Autumn Study near Oberau oil on cardboard 32.8 x 44.5 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1908 Autumn near Murnau oil on board 32.3 x 40.9 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1908 Houses in Munich oil on cardboard 33 x 41 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1908 Houses in Murnau on Obermarkt oil on cardboard 33 x 41 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1908 Lake Starnberg oil on board 63 x 97.5 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1908 Munich-Schwabing With The Church Of St. Ursula 68.8 x 49 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1908 Murnau. Landscape with a Tower oil on canvas 75.5 x 99.5 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1908 Riegsee. The Village Church oil on canvas 33 x 45 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1908 View of Murnau © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1908 White Sound oil on board 70 x 70 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1908-09 Blue Mountain oil on canvas 106 x 96.6 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1909 A Mountain oil on canvas 109 x 109 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1909 Cemetery and Vicarage in Kochel oil on cardboard © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1909 Fate. Domes oil on canvas 83 x 116 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1909 Grungasse In Murnau oil on cardboard 33 x 44.6 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1909 Houses at Murnau oil on cardboard 49 x 64 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1909 Improvisation 3 © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1909 Improvisation 6 ( African ) oil on canvas 107 x 99.5 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1909 Interior ( My Dining Room ) oil on cardboard © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
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| 1909 Murnau View With Railway And Castle oil on cardboard 36 x 49 cm © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris |
