Paths into abstraction
While the Museum Barberini is presenting the exhibition "Cosmos Kandinsky. Geometric Abstraction in the 20th Century," which explores the international developments of geometric abstraction from the 1910s to the 1970s, the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett is presenting "Cosmos Blauer Reiter. From Kandinsky to Campendonk," featuring over 100 works.
Image gallery
Wassily Kandinsky, Zwei Reiter vor Rot, 1911, Farbholzschnitt, 10,5 x 15,7 cm (Druck)
Key figures in this artist group, founded in Munich in 1911, were Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc. They began to distance themselves from references to visible reality in their art—and found paths toward abstraction.
In addition to Kandinsky and Marc, works by Heinrich Campendonk, Natalya Goncharova, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, and Gabriele Münter will be presented. The exhibition thus reveals the multifaceted prehistory of geometric abstraction, which Kandinsky turned to around 1920.
To mark the occasion, Andreas Schalhorn, Curator of 20th-Century Art at the Berlin Kupferstichkabinett, and Ortrud Westheider, Director of the Museum Barberini, will offer guided tours of the Kosmos Kandinskyn Potsdam on March 20 and the Kosmos Blauer Reiter in Berlin on April 10.
A visit to both exhibitions invites visitors to explore Kandinsky's various forms of abstraction as well as his artistic environment in Munich, Moscow, Paris, and the Bauhaus.
- Participation fee: €10 plus admission
- Limited number of participants
- Online booking required
A cooperation between the Museum Barberini and the Kupferstichkabinett of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
(TOUR IN GERMAN)
Dates
April 2025
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