1866, Moscow - 1944, Neuillysur-Seine (France)
Murnau. Summer Landscape
1909
- Period Early 20th century
- CategoryLandscape
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Study for the painting Houses in the Mountains (1909, private collection, New York)
In autumn 1908, a new stage began in Kandinsky’swork. Together with Gabriele Münter, helived in Murnau, in a small settlement in the BavarianAlps, 50 kilometers from Munich, on the invitationof Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne vonWerefkin. The artist’s works from these yearsdemonstrate his familiarity with the works of theFrench fauvists, which he saw not long before thistime in Paris. Summer Landscape, like the others hepainted in Murnau, is distinguished by the heightenedactivity of colour that does not seek to resemblenature, but instead reflect the artist’s emotions.They correspond to the famous approximate volumesand contours that have a tendency to be, ifnot fully independent from the natural subject,largely free, that preceded the emergence of Kandinsky’s abstract compositions.
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