Der blaue Reiter

by Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc

En juin 1911, Kandinsky crivait Franz Marc: J'ai un nouveau projet. Une sorte d'almanach avec des reproductions et des articles... et une chronique. Un lien avec le pass ainsi qu'une lueur clairant l'avenir doivent faire vivre ce miroir... Nous mettrons une uvre gyptienne ct d'un petit Zeh (nom de deux enfants dous pour le dessin), une uvre chinoise ct d'un Douanier Rousseau, un dessin populaire ct d'un Picasso et ainsi de suite. Peu peu nous attirerons des crivains et des musiciens. Publi Munich en 1912, peu aprs que se soit tenue la Galerie Tannhauser l'Exposition du Blaue Reiter, l'Almanach est le plus stimulant exemple du renouveau des formes esthtiques dans le domaine des arts, de la littrature, de la musique, de la scnographie, la veille du premier conflit mondial, au moment o toutes les formes de la cration s'engagent vers une remise en question dont dpendra toute la vie artistique de notre temps. Illustrs de prs de 150 reproductions o sont confrontes des uvres de domaines et d'poques les plus diffrents, les textes de Kandinsky, de Marc et de leurs amis, (Macke, Bourliouk, Schoenberg, Allard, Sabaneev, etc.) constituent, comme ils le souhaitaient, les signes de la nouvelle renaissance intrieure, les signes d'une nouvelle poque du spirituel . Grce cet ouvrage prophtique, ainsi que le dit Klaus Klankheit que sa particulire connaissance de l'histoire du Blaue Reiter qualifiait mieux que quiconque pour en tre le prsentateur, cette aspiration une synthse de la culture, la vieille ide du Romantisme allemand l'uvre d'art totale tait entre dans une phase nouvelle de sa ralisation .Depuis longtemps attendue, cette traduction de l'Almanach du Blaue Reiter reproduit fidlement tous les articles et illustrations de l'original munichois. L'dition franaise a remis jour notices biographiques et bibliographies.

Genres: Art, Art History, History, Nonfiction, Music

361 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1912

About the author

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter, and Art theorist. He is credited with painting the first modern abstract works.
Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose to study law and economics. Quite successful in his profession—he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat—he started painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.
In 1896 he settled in Munich and studied first in the private school of Anton Azbe and then at the Academy Of Fine Arts in Munich. He went back to Moscow in 1914 after World War I started. He was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Moscow and returned to Germany in 1921. There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France where he lived the rest of his life, and became a French citizen in 1939. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944.

Reviews

[Eduardo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant set of essays, paintings and art. A snap shot of pre-WWI idealism and the still present drive to have art be more than simply form. Worth reading and looking at. Franz Marc & Wassily Kandinsky where amazing men & artists.

[Adrian · Rating 4 out of 5]

Algunos artículos son muy interesantes, otros no tanto. No obstante, una lectura imprescindible para amantes del arte.

[Anthony · Rating 4 out of 5]

pleasantly surprised by the amount of interesting music writing in a volume i expected to be more exclusively about painting. very cool essay by arnold schoenberg about the relationship between music and text-- i wasn't even aware that schoenberg was involved with the blaue reiter until i read this

[Nathaniel Klaung · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5

[Calliope100 · Rating 2 out of 5]

Disappointed; I found it quite boring.

[Tory Adkisson · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kandinsky and Marc were incredible artists. They were not, however, coherent prose writers, and the Blaue Reiter suffers from that--it's dense, overlong, convoluted, and quite recursive. A few of the essays fare better than others, and the Almanac certainly functions well as an introduction to Kandinsky and Marc's particular brand of German Expressionism, but it's not much for casual reading.

[Walter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Solid book.

A solid show is coming up from this group:

http://www.museum-frieder-burda.de/in...