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Original exhibition highlights significant works by Kandinsky<\/strong>
\nCelebrated retrospective\u00a0closes September 1<\/p>\n

Milwaukee, Wis.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Renowned as a painter, printmaker, watercolorist, theoretician, and Bauhaus teacher, Wassily Kandinsky\u2019s prodigious accomplishments span almost all the major artistic movements of the first half of the twentieth century, a time of experimentation and innovation in art, conducted against the upheavals of a society entering the modern world.\u00a0This extraordinary exhibition,\u00a0Kandinsky: A Retrospective<\/a>,<\/em> closes on September 1.<\/p>\n

The Museum will be open on Monday, September 1 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Kandinsky: A Retrospective\u00a0<\/em>is conceived by the Centre Pompidou, Paris, one of the major repositories of Kandinsky\u2019s works, and organized together with the Milwaukee Art Museum. It is co-curated by Angela Lampe, the Curator of Modern Art at the Centre Pompidou, and Brady Roberts, Chief Curator at the Milwaukee Art Museum.<\/p>\n

The exhibition follows the artist through several decades to reveal in five chapters every one of Kandinsky\u2019s creative periods, moving from his native Russia to turn-of-the-century Munich and Murnau, Germany, awash with bold ideas. From there the exhibition returns to revolutionary Russia, before exploring the heady intellectual world of the German Bauhaus, and finally, the dynamic art world of Paris before and during World War II.<\/p>\n

The centerpiece of the exhibition is\u00a0the reconstruction of an extraordinary lounge Kandinsky created for the 1922 Juryfreie exhibition in Berlin. Made of large scale mural panels, the lounge was meant as a total environment to immerse the viewer in a complete aesthetic experience. It thus predates and anticipates the development of artistic installations and environments later in the century. These murals, reconstructed in 1977 under the supervision of his widow Nina Kandinsky for the opening of the Centre Pompidou, are\u00a0presented in the United States for the first time at the Milwaukee Art Museum.<\/p>\n

From Art Nouveau\u2019s sinuous, organic forms, to Fauvism and Blaue Reiter\u2019s shocking colors, to Kandinsky\u2019s signature, deeply spiritual abstraction, to the mysteries of Surrealism to the constructivism of the Bauhaus period and the biomorphic forms of the thirties \u2014 Kandinsky experienced it all and led the way to the invention of radical new forms of modern art.<\/p>\n

The exhibition features over eighty works and documents drawn from the world famous Kandinsky collection of the Centre Pompidou which has one outstanding particularity: nearly all of these works belonged to the artist himself and have been given by his widow Nina Kandinsky to the French State. It allows the visitor the unique opportunity to discover an exhibition made with Kandinsky\u2019s favorite works, those he kept with him all his life.<\/p>\n

The selection is enriched by the exceptional German Expressionist holdings at the Milwaukee Art Museum. A number of paintings from the Bradley Collection will add a complementary art historical dimension to the narrative. The works of Kandinsky\u2019s Munich peers from Milwaukee\u2019s collections will provide rich artistic visual dialogues for visitors. Dazzling works by Alex Jawlensky, August Macke, and Marianne Werefkin, in addition to the Museum\u2019s world-renowned holdings by Kandinsky\u2019s lover and colleague, Gabriele M\u00fcnter, will gain a new depth from their proximity to her one-time teacher. Two major loans from the Guggenheim Museum and the Walker Art Center will complete this stunning journey through Kandinsky\u2019s career.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Milwaukee Art Museum is proud to be the premier venue for\u00a0Kandinsky: A Retrospective<\/em>. This exhibition celebrates one of the key figures in Modern art by showcasing two extraordinary institutions: the exhaustive collections of works by the artist in the Centre Pompidou; and the superb work of the related Blaue Reiter artists in the Mrs. Harry Lynde Bradley Collection at the Milwaukee Art Museum,\u201d said Daniel Keegan, director of the Milwaukee Art Museum. \u201cThis international collaboration tells the story of some of the most dynamic and influential modern art created in the first half of the twentieth century.\u201d<\/p>\n

A major catalogue distributed by Yale University Press \u00a0accompanies the exhibition, offering new insights on Kandinsky\u2019s Bauhaus murals.<\/p>\n

Kandinsky: A Retrospective\u00a0will be on view at the Milwaukee Art Museum from June 5 through September 1, 2014 and is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities, with additional support provided by Associated Bank, Christie\u2019s, and the Milwaukee Art Museum\u2019s Friends of Art. After its presentation in Milwaukee, the exhibition will travel to the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee.<\/em><\/p>\n

HOURS AND ADMISSION<\/strong>
\nThe Museum is open Tuesday\u2013Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on Thursdays until 8 p.m. Admission is $17 for adults; $14 for students, seniors, and active military; and free for Members and for children age 12 and under. The Museum is open Mondays from Memorial Day through Labor Day, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The first Thursday of each month is Target Free First Thursday and admission is free for individuals (does not apply to groups).<\/p>\n

ABOUT MILWAUKEE ART MUSEUM<\/strong>
\nThe Milwaukee Art Museum houses a rich collection of over 30,000 works, with strengths in 19th- and 20th-century American and European art, contemporary art, American decorative arts, and is the world\u2019s leading repository for work by untrained creators. The Museum campus is located on the shores of Lake Michigan and spans three buildings, including the Santiago Calatrava-designed Quadracci Pavilion and the Eero Saarinen-designed Milwaukee County War Memorial Center. For more information, please visit mam.org.<\/p>\n

ABOUT CENTRE POMPIDOU<\/strong>
\nIn its thirty five-year existence, the Centre Pompidou has established itself as one of the world\u2019s foremost institutions in the field of modern and contemporary art. With over 100,000 works its collection of 20th and 21st century art ranks among the finest in the world. The Centre Pompidou is also home to Europe\u2019s largest public reading library, and produces around 25 temporary exhibitions each year, together with an acclaimed programming of performances, film, lectures and talks. The Centre Pompidou is the third most visited site in France after the Louvre and the Eiffel Tower, and has welcomed over 200 million visitors since its opening in 1977, including 6 million people in 2013. The Centre Pompidou stands in the historic center of Paris in one of the most spectacular buildings of 20th-century architecture. Designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers \u2013 both Pritzker Prize laureates\u2013 this bold structure, instantly familiar with its characteristic multicoloured pipes, now stands as an icon of modern architecture and a feat of engineering.<\/p>\n

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