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Klee & Kandinsky : neighbors, friends, rivals

Title
Klee & Kandinsky : neighbors, friends, rivals / edited by Michael Baumgartner, Annegret Hoberg, Christine Hopfengart, with contributions by Vivian Endicott Barnett [and 10 others].
Publication
Munich : Prestel, [2015]

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Additional Authors
  • Baumgartner, Michael, 1952-
  • Hoberg, Annegret
  • Hopfengart, Christine
  • Barnett, Vivian Endicott, 1944-
  • Klee, Paul, 1879-1940.
  • Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944.
  • Zentrum Paul Klee, host institution
  • Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, host institution
Description
359 pages : color illustrations; 28 cm
Summary
Klee and Kandinsky were towering figures of the modernist movement and were close, both as friends and artists. For a time they lived next door to one another and exchanged their artistic ideas on a daily basis. This unique book explores their 30-year relationship, from the time of the Blue Rider group around 1912, through the Bauhaus years in Weimar and Dessau until the late 1930s. With the culture of the Weimar Republic as a backdrop, this book traces the eventful history of an artistic friendship. Kandinsky's idealism is juxtaposed with Klee's irony and we learn that their relationship was characterised in equal measure by friendship and competitiveness, mutual influence and the need to establish distance. The focus is on the artistic dialogue they enacted through their art. They were joined by an aspiration to spiritualise art and explore its intrinsic laws. At the same time, Kandinsky's commitment to abstraction contrasted strongly with Klee's allegiance to natural models.
Alternative Title
Klee and Kandinsky
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Exhibition catalogues.
  • Exhibition catalogs.
Note
  • "This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Klee & Kandinsky: Neighbors, Friends, Rivals at the Paul Klee Zentrum, Bern, June 19-September 27, 2015, and the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, October 21, 2015-January 24, 2016"--Colophon.
  • Catalogue. With texts by Vivian Endicott Barnett, Michael Baumgartner, Monika Bayer-Wermuth, Kai-Inga Dost, Annegret Hoberg, Christine Hopfengart.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-355) and index.
Contents
  • Foreword / Peter Fischer, Matthias Muhling -- Chronology / Christine Hopfengart.
  • Introduction: Klee and Kandinsky -- Good neighbors / Christine Hopfengart.
  • Essays. "To my dear friend of many years" -- Klee and Kandinsky's works on paper, 1911-1937 / Vivian Endicott Barnett -- Paul Klee's nature cosmology -- Structural analysis and imaginary morphology / Michael Baumgartner -- Kandinsky -- The "Natural World" and a new "Artificial World" / Annegret Hoberg -- Klee, Kandinsky, and music / Peter Vergo -- "Forces moving in different directions" -- Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky in the ensemble of painters at the Bauhaus / Wolfgang Thoner -- Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky -- Teaching painters at the Bauhaus / Fabienne Eggelhofer, Angelika Weissbach -- Paul Klee's theory of the paths to form / Favienne Eggelhofer -- The laws of opposite[s] -- Kandinsky's teaching at the Bauhaus / Angelika Weissbach -- "Contrasting Sounds" -- Klee, Kandinsky, and the German critics / Charles Werner Haxthausen.
  • Apercus / Christine Hopfengart. Felix Klee -- Enlivened with a sense of euphoria -- Drinking tea outside the master's house -- Learned Asian -- The immortals -- A missed photo opportunity.
  • Appendix: List of works -- Bibliography -- Image credits -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
Call Number
JQF 15-865
ISBN
  • 9783791354804
  • 3791354809
  • 9783791366265
  • 3791366262
LCCN
2015512152
OCLC
907661002
Title
Klee & Kandinsky : neighbors, friends, rivals / edited by Michael Baumgartner, Annegret Hoberg, Christine Hopfengart, with contributions by Vivian Endicott Barnett [and 10 others].
Publisher
Munich : Prestel, [2015]
Type of Content
still image
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-355) and index.
Added Author
Baumgartner, Michael, 1952- editor.
Hoberg, Annegret, editor.
Hopfengart, Christine, editor.
Barnett, Vivian Endicott, 1944- writer of added text.
Klee, Paul, 1879-1940. Paintings. Selections.
Kandinsky, Wassily, 1866-1944. Paintings. Selections.
Zentrum Paul Klee, host institution.
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus München, host institution.
Research Call Number
JQF 15-865
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