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Lot Essay
Gemässigt was painted in 1925, the same year that the Bauhaus was relocated from Weimar to Dessau. "The Bauhaus provided a context in which a range of artistic points of view were allowed to flourish, within the parameters of a commitment to geometric forms and structural principles. Here, as elsewhere, in Europe where abstract art was developing in the teens and twenties, it was believed that geometry provided a universal language." (C. Polinq, Kandinsky: Russian and Bauhaus Years, New York, 1983, p.49)
Kandinsky contributed to this artistic debate and the formulation of his own artistic evolution with a series of articles in 1925. Kandinsky further explored these ideas in his treatise on line and form, Punkt und Linie zu Fläche (Point and Line to Plane), published in Munich in 1926. The paintings of that year are closely related to the theoretical formulations set forth in the book, where texture, line, colour and form are used to create visual tension and balance. A related work of 1925 entitled Helle Einheit is now in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Kandinsky contributed to this artistic debate and the formulation of his own artistic evolution with a series of articles in 1925. Kandinsky further explored these ideas in his treatise on line and form, Punkt und Linie zu Fläche (Point and Line to Plane), published in Munich in 1926. The paintings of that year are closely related to the theoretical formulations set forth in the book, where texture, line, colour and form are used to create visual tension and balance. A related work of 1925 entitled Helle Einheit is now in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.