Shulamith Behr

Annegret Hoberg

The Search for Expression 1906-1917

Gabriele Munter

Franz Marc

Helmut Friedel

Isabelle Jansen

Barbara Eschenburg

Contains a biography of nineteenth-century German Expressionist painter Franz Marc, and provides critical analyses, along with over three hundred reproductions and photographs, of his works.

The Retrospective

Gabriele Münter

Barnaby Wright

German Expressionist M nter (1877-1962) was one of the co-founders of The Blue Rider artists group and was Wassily Kandinsky companion. Largely unknown outside Germany, her reputation eclipsed by male contemporaries, M nter's work was the subject of a 2005 exhibition at the Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, London, for which this catalogue was pr

Wassily Kandinsky

The ill-starred love affair between Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Munter is one of the most intriguing episodes in the history of twentieth-century art - a story of happiness and pain, trust and betrayal, idyllic harmony and bitter conflict, set against the backdrop of the revolutionary upheavals that attended the birth of Modernism. Living and working together in Munich and in the Bavarian countryside, Kandinsky and Munter jointly became the moving spirits of the Blue Rider school, which pioneered the epochal turn from figurative painting to abstraction. This book traces the development of the couple's personal and artistic relationship from its beginnings in 1902 to the key moment in 1914 when Kandinsky fled Germany and returned to his native Russia, before finally abandoning Munter in 1917. The fascinating and often moving story of their life together - and of the underlying tensions that eventually drove them apart - is told in letters (some of which are published here for the first time), in diary extracts and memoirs, and in superb reproductions of their finest paintings and sketches.

Letters and Reminiscences, 1902-1914

Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter

Now available in a new format, this opulent book presents Vasily Kandinsky’s major paintings from all phases of his artistic career and celebrates the artist and his groundbreaking work. This generously illustrated volume displays Vasily Kandinsky’s brilliant use of color, shape, and composition through approximately 250 full-color illustrations. Essays by the world’s leading Kandinsky experts focus on the evolution of his work throughout all periods of his career: his exploration of his Russian roots and his emigration to Munich; his attraction to the Art Nouveau and fauvist movements; the formation of the Blue Rider group; the influence of music on his painting; his years at the Bauhaus; and his late work in Paris. The book’s design allows for a thorough examination of Kandinsky’s most important works in all their extraordinary detail. Accessible, impeccably researched, and wide-ranging, this important volume offers an indispensable overview of the artist’s seminal works and a tribute to the beauty and power of Kandinsky’s vision.

Vasily Kandinsky

Franz Marc was one of the most important members of the 'Blue Rider' school of painters, together with other artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter and Paul Klee. The first of a three-part catalogue raisonné of Marc's work, this volume is devoted to the oil paintings.

The Oil Paintings

Franz Marc: The Complete Works Volume I

Vasily Kandinsky: Kleine Welten : zwölf Blatt Originalgraphik

Michael Baumgartner

Vivian Endicott Barnett

Christine Hopfengart

Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky, two of the most influential figures in the modernist movement, are the subject of this illuminating book that opens a dialogue between their work, friendship, and influence on each other. Klee and Kandinsky were towering figures of the modernist movement and were close, both as friends and artists. For a time they lived next door to one another, and exchanged their artistic ideas on a daily basis. This unique book explores their 30-year relationship, from the time of the Blue Rider group around 1912, to the Bauhaus years in Weimar and Dessau until the late 1930s. With the culture of the Weimar Republic as a backdrop, this book traces the eventful history of an artistic friendship. Kandinsky's idealism is juxtaposed with Klee's irony, and we learn that their relationship was characterized in equal measure by friendship and competitiveness, mutual influence and the need to establish distance. The focus is on the artistic dialogue they enacted through their art. They were joined by an aspiration to spiritualize art and explore its intrinsic laws. At the same time, Kandinsky's commitment to abstraction contrasted strongly with Klee's allegiance to natural models.

Neighbors, Friends, Rivals

Klee and Kandinsky

Tanja Pirsig-Marshall

Volker Adolphs

Klara Drenker-Nagels

The friendship between Franz Marc (1880-1916) and August Macke (1887-1914) was of vital importance to both painters. Their close bond lasted four years and came to an abrupt end with the death of Macke shortly after the outbreak of World War I. This catalogue brings together paintings, watercolors, drawings, handcrafts, objects and documents from these two artists, demonstrating the extent to which they influenced one another in their work. While Macke, seven years younger than Marc, took a sensual and spontaneous approach to the visual world, his friend possessed an elevated, theoretical vision, seeking the spiritual unity of existence through the image. Despite conceptual, cultural and political differences, a deep mutual affection characterized their joint undertakings, such as the exhibitions of the Blaue Reiter or their conversations on Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism and the work of their contemporaries.

An Artist Friendship

August Macke and Franz Marc

Annegret Hoberg

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