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Who Got There First

Kandinsky is usually called the first abstract painter. A Swedish painter had got there years before.

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In 1909 Kandinsky spent his summers in Murnau, a small Bavarian town, with the painter Gabriele Münter. The people and places in his pictures were starting to dissolve into colour.

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After the Russian Revolution Kandinsky went home to Moscow, then came back to Germany. From 1922 he taught at the Bauhaus, where circles, lines and triangles took over his painting and his teaching.

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Before and after

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In Stockholm a painter trained at the Royal Academy held séances with four women friends and painted what she believed the spirits guided her to. She ordered the results kept secret until twenty years after her death.

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A hidden link

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