Michail Ju German Boeken

The founder of abstract art The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of twentieth-century art. Nowadays he is regarded as the founder of abstract art and is, moreover, the chief theoretician of this type of painting. Together with Franz Marc and others he founded the group of artists known as the "Blauer Reiter" in Munich. His art then freed itself more and more from the object, eventually culminating in the "First Abstract Watercolour" of 1910. In his theoretical writings Kandinsky repeatedly sought the proximity of music; and just as in music, where the individual notes constitute the medium whose effect stems from harmony and euphony, Kandinsky was aiming for a pure concord of colour through the interplay of various shades. Gauguin had demanded that everything "must be sacrificed to pure colours". Kandinsky was the first to realise this and thus to influence a whole range of artists. About the Each book in TASCHEN’s Basic Art series

Dieser Katalog erscheint anläßlich dem Start der Ausstellungsreihe „Modern Master Printmakers“ der Galerie Edition Raphael in Frankfurt am Main, die mit einer Übersichtsausstellung des druckgraphischen Oeuvres Marc Chagalls eingeleitet wird. Der Katalog enthält Abbildungen wichtiger Lithographien und Radierungen - aus Werkzyklen oder als Einzelblätter verlegt - angefangen von den ersten Farblithographien Chagalls aus „Four Tales from the Arabian Nights“ von 1948, bis zu seiner letzten veröffentlichten druckgraphischen Arbeit "Vers l'autre Clarté" von 1985.