Gabriele Münter and Wassily Kandinsky
Biography of a Couple
Revised edition. With a section of colour images and numerous additional images
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Gabriele Münter and Wassily Kandinsky / Gabriele Münter und Wassily Kandinsky
Biography of a Couple
Revised edition. With a section of colour images and numerous additional images
The meeting between the young cosmopolitan painter and the Russian burdened by the Slavic profoundness of feeling and Eastern religiosity played out against the backdrop of Munich’s artistic scene around the turn of the century. This is where Kandinsky pushed towards non-representational art over the course of his »marriage of conscience« with Münter, while his unconventional partner kept her own artistic vocabulary as part of the group known as Der Blaue Reiter. This book bears...
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The meeting between the young cosmopolitan painter and the Russian burdened by the Slavic profoundness of feeling and Eastern religiosity played out against the backdrop of Munich’s artistic scene around the turn of the century. This is where Kandinsky pushed towards non-representational art over the course of his »marriage of conscience« with Münter, while his unconventional partner kept her own artistic vocabulary as part of the group known as Der Blaue Reiter. This book bears witness to the autobiographical embeddedness of their paintings and draws a line from Jugendstil to the contemporary esteem in which classical modernity is held.
1994, 813 pages
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Gisela Kleine
Author
Gisela Kleine, born in 1926, obtained her PhD after studying German philology, philosophy and journalism under Benno von Wiese with a dissertation on »The Problem of Reality in the Works of Hermann Hesse« at the University of Münster. Since Hesse liked her doctoral thesis, she was invited to Montagnola, where she also met Ninon Hesse, and a correspondence with both the poet and his wife ensued. Her experiences as editor-in-chief of the magazine Der leitende Angestellte formed the basis for all her teaching positions in the field of literary and media studies at institutions such as the University of Dortmund and the University of Bochum, where she also studied archeology and art history. The marital biography on Ninon and Hermann Hesse, the archeologist and...
Gisela Kleine
Author
Gisela Kleine, born in 1926, obtained her PhD after studying German philology, philosophy and journalism under Benno von Wiese with a dissertation...