Wassily Kandinsky

Scheveningen – The Beach, 1904

For a long time little attention was paid to the early works that Wassily Kandinsky created prior to his epochal abstractions. Born into a wealthy Russian family, he decided to devote his life to art and the theory of art after completing his law course. In 1897 he began studying painting in Munich. Kandinsky founded the artists’ group “Der Blaue Reiter” together with Franz Marc (1880-1916) and was a teacher at the Bauhaus. His treatises on the theory of art, his presence in the media and his ne...

Signature: KANDINSKY., lower right

Inscription: N 62. KANDINSKY - Holland // Scheweningen [sic], backside, middle

Label: Moderne Galerie Otto Stangl, backside, lower right

Label: Franz Dury [...] München
[label shop for frames and passe-partouts]

Gabriele Münter, Murnau (Geschenk des Künstlers); Gabriele Münter- und Johannes Eichner-Stiftung, München; Privatsammlung, Süddeutschland (in der o.g. Stiftung erworben, seitdem in Familienbesitz, bis 2022); MKdW (2022).
Wassily Kandinsky. Leben und Werk, WVZ, hrsg. von Will Grohmann, Köln 1958, Nr. 51, S. 343.
Kandinsky. Werkverzeichnis der Ölgemälde. Bd. 1 1900–1915, hrsg. von. Hans K. Roethel und Jean K. Benjamin, München 1982, Nr. 127, S. 146.

Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944)

Scheveningen – The Beach

1904

Oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard

23.7 x 32.7 cm

Human

Inv.-Nr. 1 KAN 01

Museum Kunst der Westküste

Access 2022

Not on display

Derzeit zu sehen / Currently on display: Landesmuseum Hannover (bis / until May 2026)