Murnau, Landscape with Tower
1908 · Oil on cardboard · Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris
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This print
About this work
- Artist
- Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944)
- Year
- 1908
- Medium
- Oil on cardboard
- Original size
- 74 × 98.5 cm
- Collection
- Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris
- Movement
- Expressionism
A dark, tree-covered hill fills the centre under a deep blue sky, with a church tower rising at the left and a few pale clouds scattered above; across the foreground runs a road in hot red and yellow. The colours are flat, unblended and far from natural, and the forms are simplified into patches. Kandinsky painted it on cardboard in 1908 in Murnau, a market town in the Bavarian foothills where he and Gabriele Münter worked that summer alongside Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin. The Murnau pictures, with their saturated colour and dark outlines, mark the point at which Kandinsky left behind his earlier Russian fairy-tale scenes and began to free colour from description, the step that led to the abstraction of 1910 to 1913. Nina Kandinsky gave the painting to the Musée National d'Art Moderne in Paris in 1976.
This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.
Where it works
A dark green hill and church tower under a deep blue sky with a blazing red road, for a living room, study or hallway at 16×24 in natural wood. A cream, sage or deep blue wall; it pairs with Jawlensky's Murnau.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Expressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1908)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- living room, hallway or entryway, study or library, dining room, dorm room
- Good gift for
- housewarming, art lovers
Size. We'd hang this one at 16×24. Prints at 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in — 12×18 for a shelf, desk or a gallery-wall grid; 16×24 above a desk, console or in a hallway; 24×36 as the statement piece above a sofa or bed.
Framing. Exhibition posters sit best in a slim black frame with no mat — the typeset margin is the mat.
Pairing. Pairs as a set of three with other famous painting prints (10% off three or more).
Details & materials
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About this design
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A fine-art print
The same artwork as a clean fine-art print — the image shown large with a minimal caption.
