“Alte Liebe” from Max Klinger’s Brahms-Phantasie
Schubert’s Krähe. Winterreise No. 15 by Kojima Tokujiro
Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944)
Klänge (Sounds)
Munich: R. Piper & Co. Verlag, 1913
The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Spencer Collection
Klänge (Sounds)
Wassily Kandinsky, a pioneer of abstract painting, created Klänge (Sounds) as a self-described “musical album.” Composed of 38 prose poems whose expression was not purely verbal and 56 pictorial woodcuts that were not merely illustrative, Kandinsky aimed to achieve a fusion of word and image. At times the imagery is figurative, including the horse and rider motif (symbolic of the artist overcoming a slavish imitation of nature and embracing abstraction). More often it is non-representational. Working in concert, the woodcuts, poems, and typography merge in a symphonic synthesis.
: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs, Spencer …
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