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Follow the dark green road as it climbs between the yellow houses and the orange slope, then look at how each dab of color sits beside the next without mixing.
Kandinsky painted this street in Murnau in 1909, two years before the Blue Rider began. That August Gabriele Münter, the painter he traveled and worked with, bought a house in the town, and until the war they spent part of every year there. He paints on cardboard in thick, separate dabs, and signs and dates the picture at lower right.
Oil on cardboard · 49 × 64 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · The Blue Rider
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Houses at Murnau
- Artist
- Vasily Kandinsky Born Moscow (formerly Russian Empire, now Russia), 1866; died Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 1944
- Date
- 1909
- Medium
- Oil on cardboard
- Dimensions
- 49 × 64 cm (19 1/4 × 25 in.)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Katharine Kuh
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.