Silent Harmony, 1924

ArtistWassily Kandinsky, Moskva 1866–1944 Neuilly-sur-Seine

Oil of cardboard

(H x W)62,5 × 51 cm

Status

on display, room 023

About the workIn 1922, Wassily Kandinsky became a professor at the Bauhaus in Weimar, where he developed his system of painting with basic geometric shapes. He used these like notes to devise works that formed rhythmic or melodic accents like musical compositions. Circles, triangles, rectangles and curved lines in different sizes and colours structure the surface of the image. Together they comprise a whole, a “Silent Harmony” that results entirely from the interplay between the pictorial elements and no longer has anything to do with the natural world.

AccessionAcquisition 1956

Provenance[...]; 1.1.- 28.2.1925 Neues Museum Wiesbaden, Ausstellung "Wassili Kandinsky" (Kat.-Nr. 17) zum Verkauf; [...]; mind. 29.11.1955 Galerie Wilhelm Grosshennig, Düsseldorf; 29.2.1956 angekauft von der Galerie Grosshennig

Inventory number0.1956.5360

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