Vasily Kandinsky Born Moscow (formerly Russian Empire, now Russia), 1866; died Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1944
Houses at Murnau
1909
Wassily Kandinsky's 'Houses at Murnau' (1909) is one of the key small landscapes from the artist's Bavarian summers with Gabriele Münter that inaugurated his turn from representation to spiritual abstraction. Red roofs and indigo mountains float on acid-green meadow in flat blocks of colour. Oil on cardboard, Art Institute of Chicago.
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Image source: Art Institute of Chicago