Kandinsky, Salon de musique MAMCS ( maquette du mur de gauche )

Français : Maquette pour le Salon de musique réalisé pour l'exposition d'architecture allemande de Berlin. Panneau gauche : 45 x 75 x 4 cm. Don de L'Oréal en 2006.

Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art

Native name
Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg (MAMCS)

Parent institution
Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg 

Location
Strasbourg

Coordinates
48° 34′ 46″ N, 7° 44′ 10″ E  

Established
1998

Web page
https://www.musees.strasbourg.eu/musee-d-art-moderne-et-contemporain

Authority control

: Q845468
VIAF: 145326281
ISNI: 0000 0001 2324 9632
ULAN: 500283621
LCCN: n92119118
SUDOC: 026393344
WorldCat

institution QS:P195,Q845468

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian-born painter and art theorist, a pioneer of abstract art. Kandinsky and moved to Munich in 1896. Kandinsky's early work was influenced by the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, but by the early 1910s, he had begun to move away from representational art and began creating purely abstract works. He wrote several influential books on the spiritual and theoretical aspects of art, including "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" (1911) and "Point and Line to Plane" (1926). He was a member of the Blue Rider movement.