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Untitled

Germany and France, 1915
Drawings; watercolors
Watercolor and ink on paper
13 1/4 × 9 in. (33.6 × 22.9 cm)
Partial, fractional and promised gift of Janice and Henri Lazarof (M.2005.70.41)
Modern Art
Not currently on public view

Label

When Wassily Kandinsky painted this watercolor, he had already left Germany and was about to return to Moscow, where he would remain throughout World War I....
When Wassily Kandinsky painted this watercolor, he had already left Germany and was about to return to Moscow, where he would remain throughout World War I. The work reflects the style of his mature prewar work—a type of loose, organic abstraction he called an improvisation. Kandinsky remained in Russia during the first years of the Russian Revolution and devoted himself to teaching. He returned to Germany to teach at the Bauhaus in 1922, where he honed a tighter, more geometric form of abstraction, which he theorized in his book Point and Line to Plane (1925). At the Bauhaus, Kandinsky led the wall painting workshop and taught the preliminary course until 1933, when the school was forcibly closed by the Nazi government.

Wall label, 2021.
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Bibliography

  • Barron, Stephanie. Envisioning Modernism: The Janice and Henri Lazarof Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2012.