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The Archer (Bogenschütze)

Wassily Kandinsky, French (born Russia), (December 4, 1866–December 13, 1944)

Creation date: 1938

Other Information

Medium and Support: Woodcut on paper

Credit Line: Museum purchase

Accession Number: 2012.40.a

Dimensions: 12 1/2 in. x 9 3/4 in. x 3/16 in. (31.75 cm x 24.77 cm x 0.48 cm)

Provenance

Marniart, Reston, VA ( - May 2, 2012)

The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (May 2, 2012 - )

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Like most of the Expressionists, Kandinsky was active as a printmaker as well as a painter, and his series of increasingly abstract woodcuts made before World War I mark important steps on the path towards abstraction. Later, in 1935, recognizing the importance of these prints, the editors of the journal XXe Siècle dedicated part of their third issue to them. Kandinsky produced new versions of six of his early woodcuts, which were set into the volume; he also wrote an essay on the works. The woodcut shown here originally appeared in Kandinsky’s Klange (Sounds) of 1913, a book that Kandinsky described as a “musical album.” In it, he combined prose-poems with woodcuts to suggest the equivalence of the visible and the audible. A reproduction of Kandinsky’s essay about his woodcuts is also shown.
Last Updated: 5/18/2021

Exhibition

This object was included in the following exhibitions:

The Human Beast: German Expressionism at The San Diego Museum of Art San Diego Museum of Art , 7/21/2012 - 11/11/2012

The Human Beast San Diego Museum of Art , 7/21/2012 - 11/11/2012

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