Wassily Kandinsky

In 1912 Wassily Kandinsky's writing 'Über das Geistige in der Kunst' (On the Spiritual in Art) is published by Piper in Munich.

Klee

At the same time, Kandinsky published Klee's art history writing Über das Geistige in der Kunst.

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The text is by Salomon Franck, the Weimar court poet, who published who in Geist-

one of the most significant legacies of Kandinsky's life

Über das Geistige in der Kunst was one of the most significant legacies of Kandinsky's life.

Russian artist Vassily Kandinsky

In his most renowned essay, Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Über das Geistige in der Kunst), Russian artist Vassily Kandinsky writes about the possibility of perceiving visual art in a similar way as we perceive music, and proposes that we can view colors and shapes in a painting in the same way as we listen to the sound and tones in a musical composition.

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky, whose seminal treatise, ‘On the Spiritual in Art’ (‘Über das Geistige in der Kunst’), of 1911–12 has been hailed as one of the most important texts in the history of modern art, is a key figure in such discussions.

The influence one of the most important theoretical works in the history of modern art

The influence Kandinsky's occult reading had on Theosophy's ideas of the coming 'Epoch of the Great Spiritual' is clear in Theosophy's influential manifesto Ãœber das Geistige in der Kunst, Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1912), one of the most important theoretical works in the history of modern art.

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Mention could also be made of Franz Jostes, Meister Eckhart und seine Junger, ungedruckte Texte zur Geschichte der deutschen Mystik (Collectanea Friburgensia, iv., Freiburg, 1895).

Friederich von Schiller

The text was written by the great German poet Friederich von Schiller.