In the 1930s, stage designer Alexandre Ferenczy and architect Hermann Henselmann – who would later gain fame for Berlin TV ...

HUNTINGTON An exhibit at the Huntington Museum of Art celebrates independence, democracy and America through woodcuts and paintings from the Werner Drewes Estate, along with works from the museum’s ...

What is Bauhaus architecture? Founded in the wake of the devastation of the First World War, which left Germany beaten, impoverished, shamed and traumatised, Bauhaus was intended as a new guild, based ...

Wassily chairs were expensive when they were invented in 1925 because of the originality of design that set them apart from ...

Breuer had been one of the most accomplished students to emerge from the Bauhaus, the German crucible of modernism that ...

"Kandinsky" brings together 60 of the painter's works to trace his creative journey from evocative figuration to thrilling abstraction.

Along with several signature works that usually hang in the Pompidou, such as Kandinsky’s “Picture with a Black Arch,” from his Blue Rider period, and “On White 2” from his Bauhaus ...

What is a point? Or the temperature of a vertical line? Or the feeling of a colour? A Kandinsky exhibition in the new H’ART museum explains what the celebrated Russian 20th century artist was about ...

While Kandinsky’s writings and paintings like Der Blaue Reiter —not to mention his teaching at the Bauhaus—became widely known during his lifetime, af Klint faced a different reality.

In 1903, Wassily Kandinsky painted a figure in a blue cloak galloping across a landscape on a white horse. Several years later the name of the painting, The Blue Rider (der Blaue Reiter) was adopted ...

By the time he returned to Germany in 1922 for a teaching stint at the Bauhaus, Kandinsky’s approach was, by and large, commensurate with the school’s rigorous aesthetic. Contours became finite, ...