Original Kandinsky restrospective at Milwaukee Art Museum

Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Renowned as a painter, printmaker, watercolorist, theoretician, and Bauhaus teacher, Wassily Kandinsky is a prodigious artists of the first half of the twentieth century.

Beginning Thursday, June 5, 2014, the Milwaukee Art Museum will present a major retrospective of this modern master. Kandinsky: A Retrospective is conceived by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, one of the major repositories of Kandinsky’s works, and organized together with the Milwaukee Art Museum.

The exhibition is co-curated by Angela Lampe and Brady Roberts. The centerpiece of the exhibition will be the reconstruction of an extraordinary lounge Kandinsky created for the 1922 Juryfreie exhibition in Berlin. It anticipates the development of artistic installations and environments later in the century.

The exhibition is exploring the heady intellectual world of the German Bauhaus and, finally, the dynamic art world of Paris before and during World War II. It features over eighty works and documents drawn from the world famous Kandinsky collection of the Centre Pompidou.

This event allows the visitor the unique opportunity to discover an exhibition made with Kandinsky’s favorite works, those he kept with him all his life. It "celebrates one of the key figures in Modern art by showcasing two extraordinary institutions: the exhaustive collections of works by the artist in the Centre Pompidou; and the superb work of the related Blaue Reiter artists in the Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley Collection at the Milwaukee Art Museum”, said Daniel Keegan, director of the Milwaukee Art Museum.

“This international collaboration tells the story of some of the most dynamic and influential modern art created in the first half of the twentieth century”.