Untitled (Komposition) (Composition)

Vasili Vassileevich Kandinsky (signed by artist), 1922

In Munich in the years 1906-1911, the Russian artist Kandinsky formed a group of like-minded artists called Der Blaue Reiter; initially with Jawlensky and then with Franz Marc. Around 1908 he painted his first abstract canvas. He propagated his conviction that one could render harmony with colour as well as with sound in his writings, and his teaching at the Bauhaus from 1922.