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This room is situated in the section of the Winter Palace
originally occupied by the apartments of the ladies-in-waiting. The
exhibition in the room features West-European works of art of the
early 20th century. Of primary interest are the canvases by Wassily
Kandinsky - Sketch for Composition V (1911), A View of Murnau (1908),
Winter Landscape (1909) and Composition VI and Landscape (both 1913).
Composition VI is one of the artist's most significant works produced
in Munich. Starting his work on this painting Kandinsky wanted to
call it The Flood. The room also houses Landscape by Alexei von Jawlensky
and a number of sculptures by Emile Antoine Bourdelle: Beethoven:
The Tragic Mask (1908), Eloquence: Study of a Head (1917) and Portrait
of Ingres (1908). |
