Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Vivian Endicott Barnett

Shows representative works, including paintings, drawings, and watercolors, from each stage of Kandinsky's career and discusses the artist's style and impact on modern art

Kandinsky at the Guggenheim

Wassily Kandinsky

This second volume in the two-volume catalogue raisonné of Kandinsky's drawings is devoted to Kandinsky's thirty-eight sketchbooks. A companion to Volume One which focused on his individual drawings, it illustrates and documents his sketchbook pages, with drawings dating from 1889 to 1943, many of which have never before been published. This volume also includes a commentary essay by the author - an internationally recognized Kandinsky scholar - which addresses aspects of his work that have not previously been studied and sheds new light on the artist's creative process. Appendices include a range of rare wood sculptures and decorative objects that Kandinsky created and color reproductions of his paintings and watercolours not illustrated in previous volumes.

Catalogue Raisonné Volume Two: Sketchbooks

Kandinsky Drawings Vol 2

Helmut Friedel

A comprehensive account of Wassily Kandinsky's early work (1900-1914), the period of his radical shift to abstraction. The works illustrated in this volume form the collection of the Lenbachhaus in Munich, Germany. The author has also compiled the catalogue raisonne of Kandinsky's watercolours.

A Colorful Life : the Collection of the Lenbachhaus, Munich

Vasily Kandinsky

Michael Baumgartner

Annegret Hoberg

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

Twentieth-century Painting, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Abstraction, Non-objectivity, Realism

Vivian Endicott Barnett

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