Kandinsky: Pionier van de abstracte kunst (H’ART Museum, Centre Pompidou)
Angela Lampe
H'ART Museum, Centre Pompidou & WBooks, 2024
€29,95
Wassily Kandinsky (Moscow 1866-Paris 1944) has had an important role in art that should not be underestimated. His development went from figurative, almost impressionistic work to an organic, hybrid formal language. This book shows the artistic path of the Russian-French artist. He was one of the pioneers of abstract art that turned the art world upside down.
Kandinsky was born in Tsarist Russia, made a name for himself as a teacher at the renowned Bauhaus in Germany, fled fascism and ended up in France where he was naturalized as a Frenchman. Wars, crises and revolutions had their impact on the artist. His unlikely life story is reflected in the richness of his art.
The fact that so much of him was preserved is thanks to his widow Nina. She donated art and archives to the French state. There they ended up in the Center Pompidou, one of the largest museums for modern and contemporary art in the world.
This book appears at the exhibition in H’ART Museum. The museum shows masterpieces such as Mit dem schwarzen Bogen (1912), Accord réciproque (1942) but also the life-size Salon (1922). It is the reconstruction of the Bauhaus work that was lost during the bombing of Berlin. IN DUTCH!
ISBN: 9789462586369
