Cutator’s Tour Paths to Abstraction at the Kupferstichkabinett

While the Museum Barberini is showing the exhibition Kandinsky’s Universe. Geometric Abstraction in the 20th Century, which is dedicated to international developments in geometric abstraction from the 1910s to the 1970s, the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin is presenting The Cosmos of “Der Blaue Reiter”. From Kandinsky to Campendonk with over 100 works. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc were key figures in this group of artists founded in Munich in 1911. They began to move away from references of a visible reality in their art - and they found ways into abstraction. In addition to Kandinsky and Marc, works by Heinrich Campendonk, Natalia Goncharova, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Gabriele Münter and more, are also on display. The exhibition thus shows the multifaceted prehistory of geometric abstraction, to which Kandinsky turned around 1920.

On this occation, Andreas Schalhorn, curator of 20th century art at the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, and Ortrud Westheider, director of the Museum Barberini, will be giving guided tours of Kandinsky’s Universe. Geometric Abstraction in the 20th Century on March 20 and The Cosmos of “Der Blaue Reiter”. From Kandinsky to Campendonk on April 10. The visit to both exhibitions invites visitors to get to know Kandinsky's various forms of abstraction and his artistic environment in Munich, Moscow, Paris and at the Bauhaus.

A cooperation between the Museum Barberini and the Kupferstichkabinett der Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.

Costs
€ 10 plus admission Kupferstichkabinett available on the website of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin

Duration
90 minutes

Meeting point
Kupferstichkabinett

Please note
The curator's tour is already fully booked.