Home of Vassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter in Murnau (c. 1909) by AnonymousCentre Pompidou
At the end of the summer of 1908, Gabriele Münter and Kandinsky spent a few weeks in Murnau, a small Bavarian village that they discovered on the shores of lake Staffel.
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They lived here in Murnau in a house purchased by Gabrielle Münter in 1909, and which became a place of life, conversation, and creativity.
Vassily Kandinsky's apartment building in Moscow on the corner of Dolguy Street and Trety Neopalimovsky Street (1978) by Makroff, OlgaCentre Pompidou
Kandinsky sold the house he inherited in 1913, and in the same year, he began construction of a new building with six floors and 24 apartments overlooking Zubovskaya Square, which he often painted.
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In 1915, he moved in on the top floor.
Construction site for Bauhaus in Dessau built by Walter Gropius (1925) by Moholy, LuciaCentre Pompidou
In 1922, upon invitation by his director, the architect Walter Gropius, he rejoined the experimental Bauhaus school in Weimar, and later Dessau, as a teacher until the permanent closure of the school in 1933.
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Apartment building at 135 boulevard de la Seine in Neuilly-sur-Seine (1938) by Breitenbach, JosephCentre Pompidou
In 1934, Vassily and Nina Kandinsky moved into an apartment on the sixth floor of a new building in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
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After setting up his studio, Kandinsky jumped back into his work and returned to painting, exhibiting in Paris and in Europe, and published a number of theoretical texts in defense of abstract art.
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