Murnau, View with Railway and Castle
1909 · Oil on cardboard · Lenbachhaus, Munich
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About this work
- Artist
- Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944)
- Year
- 1909
- Medium
- Oil on cardboard
- Original size
- 36 × 49 cm
- Collection
- Lenbachhaus, Munich
- Movement
- Expressionism
A black locomotive and its carriages run in silhouette along an embankment across the foreground, trailing white smoke past two telegraph poles, while behind them green and yellow slopes climb toward the hill with the castle and church of Murnau under white clouds. Kandinsky painted this small picture on cardboard in 1909, the year Gabriele Münter bought a house in Murnau, where the couple spent long stretches until 1914. The railway ran below the house, and the subject is a rare touch of modern life in his work of these years. The flat silhouette of the train against bright colour shows how far he had already gone in treating a scene as a pattern of coloured shapes. The painting stayed with Münter and came to the Lenbachhaus in Munich with her gift of 1957; the museum lists it as Railway near Murnau.
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 black train and white smoke against bright green slopes and the castle hill of Murnau, for a child's room, hallway or study at 16×24 in natural wood. A sage, cream or pale blue wall; it pairs with Murnau, Landscape with Tower.
Style, size & framing detail
- Style
- Exhibition poster of a Expressionism painting
- Era
- 20th century (1909)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Palette
- cream & beige
- Mood
- calm
- Rooms
- hallway or entryway, study or library, kids room, living room, dining 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.
