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Wassily Kandinsky
Postcard for the Bauhaus exhibition1923

Not on view
Black and white print combining abstract geometric shapes — circles, diagonal bars, crossing lines, checkerboard rectangle — with German text reading 'Bauhaus-Ausstellung Weimar, Juli–September 1923'

Wassily Kandinsky, Postcard for the Bauhaus exhibition, 1923, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Wassily Kandinsky
Russia, also active Germany and France, 1866–1944
Title
Postcard for the Bauhaus exhibition
Place Made
Germany, Weimar
Date Made
1923
Medium
Lithograph printed in red, blue and black on heavy card
Dimensions
Image: 5 3/8 x 3 9/16 in. (13.65 x 9.05 cm); Sheet: 5 15/16 x 4 in. (15.08 x 10.16 cm)
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Accession Number
M.82.288.104
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies
Selected Bibliography

  • Davis, Bruce. German Expressionist Prints and Drawings: The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies. Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1989; Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1989.

  • Roethel, Hans Konrad. Kandinsky: das graphische Werk. Köln: M. Dumont Schauberg, 1970.

  • Benson, Timothy O., et al. Expressionist Utopias: Paradise, Metropolis, Architectural Fantasy. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1993.

Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris