Wassily Kandinsky, im Umfeld von Franz Marc und Gabriele Münter der Künstlergruppe „Der Blaue Reiter“ zugeordnet, gilt am Anfang des 20. Jhdts. als einer der Begründer der abstrakten Malerei und befreite damit endgültig die Kunst von der traditionellen Aufgabe, ein Abbild der sichtbaren Wirklichkeit zu geben. Dabei war seine Entwicklung der Malerei hin zur Gegenstandslosigkeit stets mit theoretischen Reflexionen und Erkenntnissen verknüpft. – Dieses Buch dokumentiert in verständlichem und informativem Text und hervorragender Bildreproduktion das Werk Kandinskys in einem überaus attraktiven Preis-Leistungs-Verhältnis.

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Painter, theoretician and teacher of art

Wassily Kandinsky was undoubtedly one of the most exciting artists of the twentieth century. He brought an equal passion and commitment to his work as a painter, a theoretician and a teacher of art. After conventional beginnings in Munich, he devoted his intellectual and artistic energies to pioneering new dimensions of expression in art. He ultimately arrived at an abstract style of painting based on the inner properties of colour and form.

Although Kandinsky may not be the first truly abstract artist, he was nevertheless the first to experiment with non-representational forms in a logical manner and to develop out of them a homogeneous style. His writings on art, including his ground-breaking work On the Spiritual in Art, have lost none of their significance, and the Compositions which caused such a furore at the first Blaue Reiter exhibition in 1911 are full of the same dazzling power and modernity today.

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