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Klee & Kandinsky : neighbors, friends, rivals

edited by Michael Baumgartner, Annegret Hoberg, Christine Hopfengart ; with contributions by Vivian Endicott Barnett ... [et al.]

Prestel, c2015

  • : English trade ed

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Klee and Kandinsky : neighbors, friends, rivals

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Other contributors: Michael Baumgartner, Monika Bayer-Wermuth, Kai-Inga Dost, Fabienne eggelhöfer, Charles Werner Haxthausen, Annegret Hoberg, Christine Hopfengart, Wolfgang Thöner, Peter Vergo, Angelika Weissbach

Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the Paul Klee Zentrum, Bern, 19th June-27th September 2015 and Lenbachhaus, Munich, 21th October 2015-24th January 2016

Includes bibliographical references (p. 351-355) and index

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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.

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