Über das Geistige in der Kunst (Concerning the Spiritual in Art)
Medium
bound volume with text, woodcuts, and photomechanical illustrations on laid paper, plus woodcut illustrations on upper and lower covers
Dimensions
book: 21 × 18.3 × 1 cm (8 1/4 × 7 3/16 × 3/8 in.)
Classification
Volume
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
William B. O'Neal Fund
Accession Number
2013.12.1
About the Artist
Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was a Russian-born painter and art theorist who is widely credited as one of the pioneers of abstract art, producing some of the earliest non-representational paintings in Western art history. Born in Moscow, he initially studied law and economics at the University of Moscow before abandoning an academic career at thirty to study painting in Munich. In Munich, Kandin...