Lot Essay
This collection of writings by Wassily Kandinsky offers unique insight not only into his major role in publishing the Blaue Reiter Almanach with Franz Marc and Reinhard Piper in 1912 and his ideas behind his book Klänge, but also into his talents as a prose writer and poet.
From an art-historical point of view it is the planned contents of the Blaue Reiter Almanach, the forword to the second edition and the maxim of the Blaue Reiter artists which are of greatest importance not only for the development of modern art in Germany but of Modernism in Europe at the dawn of the twentieth century.
"Wir suchen in dieser kleinen Ausstellung nicht eine präzise und spezielle Form zu propagandieren sondern wir bezwecken in der Verschiedenheit der vertretenen Formen zu zeigen, wie der innere Wunsch der Künstler sich mannigfaltig gestaltet" Kandinsky writes in one of the texts about the first Blaue Reiter Exhibition.
From an art-historical point of view it is the planned contents of the Blaue Reiter Almanach, the forword to the second edition and the maxim of the Blaue Reiter artists which are of greatest importance not only for the development of modern art in Germany but of Modernism in Europe at the dawn of the twentieth century.
"Wir suchen in dieser kleinen Ausstellung nicht eine präzise und spezielle Form zu propagandieren sondern wir bezwecken in der Verschiedenheit der vertretenen Formen zu zeigen, wie der innere Wunsch der Künstler sich mannigfaltig gestaltet" Kandinsky writes in one of the texts about the first Blaue Reiter Exhibition.