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Wassily Kandinsky
Concerning the spiritual in art1912

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Woodcut-style print of a stylized crouching feline in solid black ink with white negative-space details, above the German text 'EINLEITUNG'
Black ink work on white ground, horizontal abstract form with bold, flowing black shapes enclosing irregular white negative spaces, suggesting a reclining mass with fluid, gestural edges
Printed page with a bold black silhouette of a tulip on a long stem at left, beside a chapter heading "VI. FORMEN- UND FARBENSPRACHE" and a German-language verse quotation attributed to Shakespeare.
Black and white print or ink drawing, abstract composition of jagged and curving fragmented forms densely overlapping across a horizontal format, with bold black masses contrasting against white outlines and open areas.
Woodblock print in black ink on white ground, horizontal composition with bold gestural forms suggesting a reclining figure or landscape, rendered in high-contrast cut lines with irregular white voids within solid black shapes.
Book cover with black woodcut-style illustration of an abstract rider on horseback atop a curved horizon line, with bold German text reading "Über das Geistige in der Kunst, Dritte Auflage."
Artist or Maker
Wassily Kandinsky
Russia, also active Germany and France, 1866–1944
Title
Concerning the spiritual in art
Place Made
Germany, Munich
Date Made
1912
Medium
Printed material and eleven woodcuts on laid paper
Credit Line
The Robert Gore Rifkind Center for German Expressionist Studies, purchased with funds provided by Anna Bing Arnold, Museum Associates Acquisition Fund, and deaccession funds
Accession Number
83.1.103a-k
Classification
Books
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.
  • Coleman, Patrick, ed. The Art of Music. San Diego: San Diego Museum of Art, 2015.
Copyright
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris