Abstract picture "Heavy Red" (1924) by Wassily Kandinsky, Giclée on canvas

The first steps to abstraction take place at Wassily Kandinsky around 1908, as appearing colors on his landscape pictures, which steer the view of isolated individual aspects of the depicted. Soon nature will only be indicated. A watercolor dated by Kandinsky on 1910 (but possibly only in 1913) is considered his first non -object work. His work becomes "compositions" in which the synesthetician is looking for "color sounds" and forms of shape. From then on, Kandinsky tries to systematically explore the interaction of geometric shapes and calculated color conditions. From this time, Kandinsky teaches at the Bauhaus, "heavy red".