Zeichenreihen (Rows of Signs) is probably the best example of this theory. It proclaims Kandinsky’s almost mystical role in creating a language of 20th century art. His arrangement of hieroglyphic symbols and ciphers is almost

The dominating elements of the painting are two steeply rising mountains, whose summits are a rider on a white horse and a church, facing one another. Dimly visible on the left is a group of indistinct figures a crowd of people

The amorphous shapes and colorful strokes of paint in this painting have that abstract appearance, but they form some recognizable pictures which the artist created to portrait his, often biblical, subject matter.

Kandinsky’s transition into abstraction is triggered by his spirituality, but in this period also influenced by the ideas of the Bauhaus community: how to link the imaginary and real and apply abstractly designed solutions to real-world problems. The book he wrote after “Concerning the Spiritual in Art” shows the vast

This artwork of monumental proportions is an entirely abstract work, with enormous thematic complexity. Kandinsky executed over 30 studies for this painting in various mediums, such as oil sketches, ink drawings and watercolors; most of these studies are about the compositional structure

Another great design that came out of the Bauhaus, the Folding Table by Gustav Hassenpflug. This is a design that is often imitated even today, nearly 80 years after the original was designed in 1928. It’s proof that good design and good ideas never get old or outdated. The Bauhaus workshops produced much of what [...]