Wassily Kandinsky: "Yellow-Red-Blue" (1925), Giclée reproduction on canvas

In 1922 Kandinsky accepted Walter Gropius's offer to teach at the Bauhaus. He combined the teaching with intensive theoretical employment and in 1926 he followed his famous book "About the spiritual in the art" (1911) with a "point and line to area", the 9th volume of Bauhaus writings.

In it, he explains the basics of his painting on more than 200 pages and explains his logic of colors and shapes, in which the blue is assigned to the circle, the yellow to the pointed triangle and the red to the square. Kandinsky's synesthetic system goes far beyond these simple basic forms and includes line shapes, even associated sounds and smells in his finely versatile art and contemporary history argument.

The work from 1925 offered here almost exemplary shows its ideas for color and form harmony.

About Wassily Kandinsky

1866-1944, abstract Expressionist, co-founder of the artist group "The Blue Rider"

Kandinsky, like no other, wrote the "Alphabet of the Art of the 20th century". In his abstract painting, he brought the original power of color and composition without distraction by illustrating object -like effects. In his opinion, the mystery could only be recorded and represented by the abstract clash of color and graphic form.