Wassily Kandinsky - "Klänge"/Sounds
14.12.2024 - 09.03.2025 ,
Schlossmuseum Murnau (Murnau Castle Museum)
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To mark the 80th anniversary of Wassily Kandinsky's death on 13 December 2024, the Schloßmuseum Murnau (Murnau Castle Museum) is showing prints by Wassily Kandinsky in its graphics cabinet on the 1st floor of the museum. The woodcuts created for his album "Sounds" take centre stage. In 2002, the museum was able to acquire proofs, handprints and colour prints with the support of the Förderkreis.
This album, which was published in 1913 in 300 signed copies, contains 38 poems in prose as well as
44 black and white and 12 colour woodcuts, including such important motifs as "Lyrisches"
and "Two Riders in Front of Red". Kandinsky also executed some of the motifs as paintings, watercolours or
as reverse glass paintings.
Kandinsky created the majority of these motifs during the summer of 1911 in Murnau, as can be seen from his correspondence with Gabriele Münter. In his exploration of the sound woodcuts, Kandinsky arrived at increasingly abstract pictorial forms. It illustrates Kandinsky's synaesthetic perception and his interest in related arts such as poetry and music.
and music.
The cabinet exhibition accompanies the Kandinsky Days, initiated and organised by the Friends of the Zonta Club Murnau-Staffelsee e.V., which will feature events, guided tours and an exhibition on Kandinsky's great-niece.
on Kandinsky's great-niece Elena Preis (1938-2017) in the town hall foyer (until 30 January 2025) to commemorate the anniversary of Wassily Kandinsky's death.
Last edited on 31.01.2025