Japan
Tokyo November 23, 2010 - February 6, 2011
Nagoya February 16, 2011 - April 17, 2011
Kobe April 26, 2011 - June 26, 2011
Yamaguchi July 5, 2011 - September 4, 2011

 

The Hague
Gemeentemuseum
February 6, 2010 - June 13, 2010
Kandinsky and Der Blaue Reiter

In the early 20th century, a group of artists caused a huge furore in the Munich art world. Calling themselves Der Blaue Reiter, the artists produced expressive, brightly coloured, lyrical paintings which were to prompt the development of Expressionism in Germany. The core members of the group were Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky and kindred spirit Franz Marc. Although the group was so important for the later development of modern art, this exhibition at the Gemeentemuseum Den Haag in spring 2010 will be the first major retrospective of its work ever held in the Netherlands.

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New York
September 18, 2009 - January 13, 2010
Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau, Munich, Centre Pompidou, Paris and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York:
Kandinsky - Absolut Abstract

The /Kandinsky -- Absolute /Abstract/ exhibition was shown at the
Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich (from October 2008 to March 2009), at the  Centre Pompidou in Paris (April to August 2009) and, finally, at
the Guggenheim Museum in New York (September 2009 to January 2010).
This outstanding retrospective was compiled by the three museums with
 the largest Kandinsky collections in the world, and presented around
95 paintings from all the important periods of Kandinsky's oeuvre.
The collection of the three museums complement each other perfectly.
The Lenbachhaus draws on its magnificent collection of works from the
Blauer Reiter period from 1908 to 1914, which were included in the
gift of Gabriele Münter to the museum. The Centre Pompidou collection
focuses on Kandinsky's work during the Russian Revolution and
his Bauhaus years from 1917 to 1933. It also includes exceptional
works from the artist's Paris period, which were given to the museum
by Nina Kandinsky. Finally, thanks to acquisitions made by Solomon R.
Guggenheim and Hilla Rebay, the Guggenheim in New York holds a
wonderful collection of Kandinsky's late work in Paris and some early
Expressionist works.

This unprecedented show of the works by an outstanding modernist
artist and founding figure of abstract painting first opened on October 25, 2008 at the Lenbachhaus, where over 400,000 visitors came to see it. In Paris the exhibition had 750.000  and in New York 470.000 visitors, for the Lenbachhaus and the Guggenheim Museum this was their most sucsessful exhibition to date.

 

Baden-Baden
June 27, 2009 - November 8, 2009

185.000 visitors saw a selection of important works from our Blue Rider collection at the Frieder Burda Museum in Baden-Baden in an exhibition, which was curated by Lenbachhaus director Helmut Friedel and curator of the Blue Rider collection Annegret Hoberg.

A total of 80 paintings by Blue Rider artists – Germany’s most important twentieth-century expressionist group alongside the "Brücke" – were on display from June 27 to November 8, 2009, and included such well-known works as "Blue Horse" by Franz Marc (1911), "Hat Store" by August Macke (1913), "Portrait of the Dancer Alexander Sacharof" by Alexei von Jawlensky (1909), and "Jawlensky and Werefkin" by Gabriele Münter (1909).

The exhibition was complemented by a range of black-and-white photographs taken mostly by Gabriele Münter during the years she spent with Wassily Kandinsky from 1902 to 1914 featuring their European travels, life in Murnau and Munich, and the activities of the Blue Rider group. These photos not only document intimate moments from the artists’ lives but are also of great artistic value.