Every Movement · Germany, Russia 1910 to 1914

Der Blaue Reiter and early abstraction

The first paintings of nothing. Colour and line meant to work on you like music, with no object left to recognise.

Composition VII, Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky · Composition VII · 1913 · Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
When
1910 to 1914
Where
Munich
Who
Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Hilma af Klint, Robert Delaunay
Source
Wikipedia ↗ · Museum file on Commons ↗
Pushed against
← Academic art
Led to
Suprematism →Bauhaus →Abstract Expressionism →
Provoked
Social Realism →