For Kandinsky, painting was a visualisation of music and soundscapes: 'Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the body of sound with many strings. The artist is the virtuoso who makes the soul vibrate with his fingerings...' As the title 'Dominant curve' suggests, this painting is dominated by curved forms. Original: Oil on canvas, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. High-quality reproduction worked directly on canvas using the fine art giclée process and mounted on a stretcher frame. In handcrafted real wood gallery framing, ivory-coloured, matt patinated. Limited edition of 499 copies, numbered and with certificate. Format 68 x 98 cm (H/W).
This impressive composition was created during Kandinsky's time at the Bauhaus in Dessau. Original: 1929, oil on cardboard, 70 x 49 cm, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice. Edition transferred directly onto artist's canvas using the fine art giclée process and stretched onto a stretcher frame. Limited edition of 980 copies, numbered and signed, with certificate. In a handcrafted, silver-coloured solid wood frame with shadow gap. Format 83.5 x 56.5 cm (H/W). ars mundi exclusive edition.
The Berlin Secession exhibited his work, he was a member of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München and co-founder of the 'Blaue Reiter' - Wassily Kandinsky was involved in many of the art revolutions of the early 20th century. Around 1913, he finally broke away from representationalism in painting, eventually leaving the world of objects behind him entirely and concentrating on graphic elements, construction and (colour) composition. 'Ten glances at the canvas, one glance at the palette, half a glance at nature' is how he described his working method, which he underpinned theoretically in his famous Bauhaus treatise 'Point and Line to Surface' in 1926. Original: 1923, colour lithograph on wove paper, 23.8 x 19.3 cm (H/W), Bauhaus Archive, Berlin. Elaborate reproduction on laid paper-like, heavy 250g Gmund Tactile, in silver-coloured solid wood framing, glazed. Format 38.5 x 28 cm (H/W). ars mundi exclusive edition.
Wassily Kandinsky took his first steps towards abstraction around 1908, when splashes of colour appeared in his landscape paintings, directing the eye to isolated individual aspects of what was depicted. Soon nature is only hinted at. A watercolour dated 1910 by Kandinsky (but possibly not created until 1913) is ultimately regarded as his first non-representational work. His works became 'compositions' in which the synaesthete searched for 'colour tones' and formal connections. From then on, Kandinsky attempted to systematically explore the interplay of geometric forms and calculated colour relationships. Heavy Red' dates from this period, when Kandinsky was teaching at the Bauhaus. Original: 1924, oil on cardboard, 48.7 x 33.8, Kunstmuseum Basel. High-quality reproduction in fine art giclée process on cotton canvas, motif surface with canvas texture and sealed with artist's varnish, stretched on stretcher. Limited edition of 499 copies. Framed in solid wood frame. Size 82 x 62 cm (H/W).
As a teacher at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Dessau and Berlin, Kandinsky deepened his own abstract language of colour and form. During this time he also met Lyonel Feininger. Original: 1926, oil on canvas, 35.3 x 24.1 cm, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. High-quality reproduction on heavy Hahnemühle laid paper. Framed in a high-quality solid wood frame with bevelled mat, glazed. Limited edition of 499 copies. With numbered certificate on the reverse. Format 63 x 49 cm (H/W).
The oil painting dedicated to his biographer is a typical geometric-abstract Bauhaus composition. Original: 1926, oil on canvas, 35.3 x 24.1 cm, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart. High-quality reproduction worked according to a patented process on cotton canvas, sealed with artist's varnish, stretched on a real wood stretcher. Framed in a valuable solid wood studio frame. Limited to 980 copies, numbered, with certificate. Format 70 x 50 cm (H/W).
Original: Oil on cardboard, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal. High-quality reproduction in fine art giclée process on cotton canvas, sealed with artist's varnish, stretched on real wood frame. Limited edition of 499 copies. In handmade gallery framing. Format 49 x 59 cm (H/W). ars mundi exclusive edition.
4-colour hybrid print on Focus Art Natural paper. Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich. Motif size 42 x 54 cm. Sheet size 48 x 67 cm (both H/W). Framed in high-quality solid wood frame, glazed. Format approx. 62 x 74 cm (H/W).
Kandinsky possessed an extraordinary artistic intelligence and a keen sense of colour and form. He associated blue with the sky, the supernatural, infinity and tranquillity. Original: Oil on canvas, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Düsseldorf. High-quality reproduction worked directly on canvas using the fine art giclée process and stretched on a stretcher frame. Limited edition of 499 copies. In handmade gallery framing. Format 68 x 88 cm (H/W). Exclusively at ars mundi.
4-colour offset print on Luxo Art velvet paper. Motif size 36.5 x 50 cm. Sheet size 46 x 60 cm (both H/W). Framed in a silver solid wood frame, glazed. Format approx. 53 x 66 cm (H/W).
Original: 1901, oil on canvas board, 23.5 x 32.8 cm, private collection. High-quality fine art giclée museum reproduction in 7 colours on cotton artist's canvas. Fine solid wood framing in white with gold edging, grey patina. Limited edition of 499 copies. Format approx. 48 x 64 cm (H/W).
After years of unsteady sojourns in the European and Russian metropolises, Wassily Kandinsky found his peace and perseverance again in Murnau, a small town in the foothills of the Alps. He settled here with his partner, the Munich painter Gabriele Münter, who from then on accompanied him with approval and criticism during the decisive years of his breakthrough. Kandinsky's paintings from this Murnau phase usually consist of large, solid blocks of bright colours applied in dots, which are juxtaposed with strong contrasts of light and dark and cold and warm. More evenly applied dabs and blots often alternate, giving the paintings a restless, flickering and garish colourfulness - the representational theme almost disappears under the blossoming flood of colour. Original: oil on cardboard, privately owned. High-quality reproduction, giclée on canvas and traditionally stretched on a wooden frame. In handcrafted gallery framing. Limited edition of 499 copies. Format 73.2 x 58.2 cm (H/W). ars mundi exclusive edition.
An avenue of trees is revealed in the foreground, with the Alps rising in the background. The use of vibrant and pure colours acknowledges the beauty of the German Alpine foothills. 5-colour facsimile print on 270g Rives laid paper. Limited edition of 1,000 copies. In silver solid wood model framing, glazed. Format 62 x 70 cm (H/W).
During his stays in Murnau, Bavaria, the churches, facades and mountainous slopes inspired Kandinsky to detach the colour from its boundaries. Original: 1909, oil on cardboard, privately owned. High-quality edition in fine art giclée process directly on artist's canvas, stretched on stretcher frame. Limited edition of 499 copies, numbered certificate on the reverse. Framed in a black and silver-coloured solid wood frame. Format approx. 51.3 x 71.3 cm (H/W).
Original: 1928, oil on canvas, 140 x 140 cm. Donated by Nina Kandinsky, 1976, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Musée National d'Art Moderne. High-quality fine art giclée pigment print on cotton canvas, which is stretched on a solid wooden stretcher frame. An elegant shadow gap frame in black with silver rounds off the high-quality appearance perfectly. Limited edition of 499 copies. Format approx. 65 x 65 cm.
Wassily Kandinsky was appointed to the Bauhaus in 1922. He initially headed the mural painting workshop. Until his departure in 1933, the content of his courses included essential elements of the theory of form, such as analytical drawing, an introduction to the 'abstract elements of form' and seminars on colour. 'On White II', created at the beginning of his Bauhaus period, demonstrates his concept in its purest form. The white background that gives the work its title causes the coloured surfaces and contours to emerge from the picture in an almost object-like manner. A work in perfect balance, with the central black arrows dividing the picture geometrically and at the same time guiding the viewer's eyes through the composition of colours and figures. Original: 1923, oil on canvas, 105 x 98 cm, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris. Edition on artist's canvas with linen structure, on wooden stretcher frame. Limited edition of 980 copies with numbered certificate on the reverse. Framed in a black and silver solid wood frame. Format 65.3 x 61.3 cm (H/W).
Original: 1927, oil on canvas, 81 x 52 cm, London, Christie's. Brilliantly coloured fine art giclée on cotton canvas on stretcher. Framed in a valuable solid wood frame with silver shadow gap moulding. Limited edition of 499 copies, numbered certificate on the reverse. Format approx. 78.5 x 52.5 cm (H/W).
Kandinsky's late work 'The Yellow Canvas' was created in 1938. Expelled from Germany by National Socialist cultural policy, he lived in France, where he continued to develop the concept of abstract painting with great inventiveness until his death in 1944. Original: 1938, oil and varnish on canvas, 116.5 x 89 cm, Guggenheim Museum, New York. Reproduction in fine art giclée process directly on artist's canvas and mounted on stretcher frame. Limited edition of 499 copies. Framed in solid wood frame. Size 94 x 72 cm (H/W). ars mundi exclusive edition.
Original: 1923, colour lithograph, 34 x 27 cm, Berlin, Bauhaus Archive. High-quality reproduction on heavy Hahnemühle laid paper. Framed in a high-quality solid wood frame with bevelled mat, glazed. Limited edition of 499 copies. With numbered certificate on the reverse. Format 59 x 49 cm (H/W).
In 1911, Kandinsky and Marc left the New Artists' Association in Munich; in their shared residence in Murnau - where the 'Winter Landscape' was probably created - they discussed their next steps, which ultimately led to the founding of the 'Blauer Reiter'. Original: 1910-1911, oil on canvas, 33 x 44.5 cm, Collection of Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York. Reproduction in Fine Art Glicée process directly on artist's canvas and mounted on stretcher frame. Limited edition of 499 copies. Framed in a black and silver-coloured solid wood frame. Format 50.3 x 66.3 cm (H/W).
