nach Wassily Kandinsky, Mappenwerk "Xylographies"

nach Wassily Kandinsky, Mappenwerk "Xylographies"
after Wassily Kandinsky, portfolio "Xylographies"
contains five heliogravures after woodcuts by Wassily Kandinsky with black border, titles of the sheets: Les Bouleaux; L'Eglise, Les Chevaliers, Les Femmes au Bois, Les Oiseaux, one sheet marked "Index" and here title of the sheets and woodcut vignette (?), sheet with accompanying text by Gérome-Maésse in French, inserted in a folder and inscribed on the cover "Kandinsky Xylographies", with woodcut vignette (?) and number "I", published 1909 by Tendances Nouvelles in Paris with an edition of 1000 copies, cover separated from folder, folder and sheets partly with slight damages at margins, folder dimensions c. 32,5 x 32 cm. Artist's info: russ. Painter, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue (1866 Moscow to 1944 Neuilly-sur-Seine), important representative of Expressionism and abstract art, childhood in Moscow and Odessa, 1886-92 studied law, national economy and ethnology at the Lomonossow University in Moscow, 1889 expedition to the Urals, 1892 state examination in law, 1893 assistant at the faculty of law at Moscow University and doctorate, 1896 moved to Munich, 1897-99 pupil at Anton Ažbe's school of painting, from 1900 studied at the Munich Academy under Franz von Stuck, 1901-04 with Wilhelm Hüsgen founder and member of the artists' group Phalanx with school of painting, here acquaintance with his future partner Gabriele Münter, attended the exhibition of the Berlin Secession in 1902 and from 1904 the Salon d'Automne in Paris, travelled to Italy, the Netherlands, North Africa and Russia, 1906-07 in Sèvres near Paris, from 1908 in Murnau am Staffelsee, here collaboration with Marianne von Werefkin and Alexej Jawlensky as well as acquaintance with Rudolf Steiner, 1909-11 member and temporarily chairman of the 'Neue Künstlervereinigung München', 1911 foundation of the 'Blaue Reiter' together with Franz Marc, with the outbreak of war in 1914 flight via Switzerland to Moscow, here prof. 1918 member of the People's Commissariat for Education and 1920 director of the Institute for Artistic Culture in Moscow, 1921 moved to Berlin, 1922-33 professor at the Bauhaus Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, 1924 with Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee and Alexej von Jawelensky founded the artists' group "Die Blaue Vier", 1928 German citizenship, 1933 emigration to Moscow. 1933 emigration to Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris, 1933-45 defamed as "degenerate", 1939 French citizenship, member of the Deutscher Künstlerbund Weimar, the Neue Sezession Berlin and the Sonderbund Düsseldorf, Source: Thieme-Becker, Vollmer, Dressler, Matrikel der Münchner Akademie and Internet.