Murnau, Landschaft mit Turm (Murnau, Landscape with Tower)

Kandinsky reached a decisive turning point through his practice of landscape painting. In Murnau, he turned toward the very deep coloring which he found both in the natural environment surrounding him and in the freshness of the paintings on glass which were produced by the region's rural folk.

In the foreground with its group of trees, the tower enlivens the landscape, soaring up toward the blue sky, which is magnified by the paintwork with its glorious colors and its broad, multidirectional strokes.
This summer landscape reveals how Kandinsky's painting practice, with its vividly colored masses gradually gaining their independence, made a shift toward a form of painting released from the obligation to be figurative.