Hermitage Museum

Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early figurative and landscape painting, he went on to pioneer a spiritual, emotive, rhythmic use of color and line and is today credited with creating the first purely abstract work. As much a teacher and theorist as he was a practicing artist, Kandinsky's interests in music, theater, poetry, philosophy, ethnology, myth, and the occult, were all...

Although it only lasted three turbulent years, the afterburn of the Blaue Reiter (1911–1914) movement exerted a tremendous influence on the development of modern European art. Named after a Kandinsky painting, The Blue Rider, this loose band of artists, grouped around Russian emigre Wassily Kandinsky and German painter Franz Marc, sought to reject establishment standards and charge into a new artistic unknown. Articulating spiritual values and concerns in an era of rapid industrialization, the...

Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early figurative and landscape painting, he went on to pioneer a spiritual, emotive, rhythmic use of color and line and is today credited with creating the first purely abstract work. As much a teacher and theorist as he was a practicing artist, Kandinsky's interests in music, theater, poetry, philosophy, ethnology, myth, and the occult, were all...

Auf der Suche nach Reinheit Im Laufe seiner Karriere veranderte Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) seinen Stil – und damit den gesamten Verlauf der Kunstgeschichte. Von figurlicher und Landschaftsmalerei ausgehend, setzte er Farben und Formen zunehmend spirituell, emotional und rhythmisch ein und gilt heute als Maler des ersten rein abstrakten Kunstwerks. Kandinsky war nicht nur praktizierender Kunstler, sondern auch Lehrer und Theoretiker, der sein Interesse an Musik, Theater, Lyrik, Philosophie,...

„Der Blaue Reiter“ – kurzer Ausritt mit weitreichenden Folgen Das 1912 erschienene illustrierte Jahrbuch „Der Blaue Reiter“ gilt als eines der wichtigsten Manifeste der modernen Kunst in Europa. In ihm formulierten der russische Emigrant Wassily Kandinsky, sein Freund Franz Marc und andere assoziierte Kunstler ihre Vorstellungen von einer neuen Kunst, die das traditionelle Formenrepertoire sprengen und den Blick von der au?eren Realitat auf die innere richten sollte. Auch wenn sie sich dabei...