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The City of Amsterdam Will Restitute a Kandinsky to Heirs

by Cassie Packard September 7, 2021September 7, 2021

Many had previously decried the decision not to restitute the work, alleging that the museum had more to gain by keeping the important painting than the heirs.

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Experience Wassily Kandinsky’s Art Through Simulated Synesthesia

by Sarah Rose Sharp February 17, 2021February 17, 2021

A new project from Google Arts + Culture uses machine learning and Kandinsky’s extensive color theories to interpret what the painter might have heard when working on this painting.

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In Surprise Ruling, Kandinsky Painting Will Not Be Returned to Jewish Collector Heirs

by Cassie Packard January 6, 2021January 5, 2021

The Amsterdam District Court rejected claims from the heirs of a Jewish art collector that a 1909 painting by Kandinsky in Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum was sold under Nazi-era duress and should be returned.

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Looking at the Roots of the Bauhaus

by Lorissa Rinehart October 5, 2019October 4, 2019

Bauhaus Beginnings succeeds in reanimating the dialogue that began in the school’s classrooms and hallways, and in following it, as it spilled out into the streets of a country.

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A New Biography Paints a Colorful Portrait of Bauhaus Founder Walter Gropius

by Ela Bittencourt March 19, 2019April 2, 2019

In Walter Gropius: Visionary Founder of the Bauhaus, author Fiona MacCarthy attempts to debunk the myth that the German pioneer of modernist architecture is somehow an unsexy subject for biographical study.

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Vasily Kandinsky’s Poems

by Douglas Messerli February 3, 2019March 7, 2019

Evocations of color dominate these ruminative prose poems.

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Revisiting Britain’s Response to the Nazi “Degenerate Art” Show

by Dorian Batycka November 21, 2018November 21, 2018

London 1938: Defending “Degenerate” German Art tells the story of a monumental British exhibition of artists persecuted by the Nazis.

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The Dazzling Abstractions of a Neglected Taos Artist

by Kealey Boyd April 12, 2018April 12, 2018

An exclusive look inside the archive of the American Museum of Western Art, which contains remarkable artworks and writings by Emil Bisttram.

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The Lifespan of Bauhaus Utopianism

by Joseph Nechvatal February 9, 2017February 8, 2017

An exhibition at Paris’s decorative arts museum hones in on the myriad ways that students and teachers at the Bauhaus sought to integrate art, architecture, and design into total artworks.

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A Rare Suite of Kandinsky’s Experimental Prints Goes on View

by Claire Voon September 28, 2016September 29, 2016

In 1895, after deciding to turn from a career in academic law to art-making, Wassily Kandinsky was working as the artistic director of a print shop in Moscow.

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Browsing the Pages of an Avant-Garde, Weimar-Era Magazine

by Carey Dunne July 18, 2016December 21, 2021

Der Sturm, the title of the arts magazine that served as the mouthpiece for German Expressionism during the Weimar Republic, translates to “the storm.”

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The Exuberant Postcard Art of the First Bauhaus Exhibition

by Allison Meier July 20, 2015July 24, 2015

In 1923, a flurry of colorful postcards heralded the first major Bauhaus school exhibition.

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