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Wassily Kandinsky (1866- 1944)

“Im Sommer - 1904”

Colour linoleum block print

There are a couple of remarkable things that can be said about this innovative print by innovative Kandinsky. It is very hard to find anything about the image, the location of the original (I suspect in Munich “Städtische Sammlung” as part of Gabriele Münters generous bequest) or about the firm that printed the reproduction: “Epoca - Reproduktion”. I suspect the Museum’s repro department. The original print is shown in books treating “Blaue Reiter” artists (Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Alexej von Jawlensky, Lionel Feiniger etc…). The composition apparently also exists as monochrome woodblock.

The “Gabrielle Münter Stiftung des Städtischen Galerie” was founded in 1966 a few years after Gabrielle Münsters death in 1962 dating this high quality reprint in the 1970-80s ?

“Im Sommer - 1904”

Colour linoleum block print

There are a couple of remarkable things that can be said about this innovative print by innovative Kandinsky. It is very hard to find anything (picture, text) about the image or about the firm who printed the reproduction “Epoca - Reproduktion”. The print however is shown in books treating “Blaue Reiter” artists (Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Alexej von Jawlensky, Lionel Feiniger). And it seems to exist as monochrome woodblock too.

The Gabrielle Münter Stiftung des Städtischen Galerie was founded in 1966 a few years after Gabrielle Münsters death in 1962 dating this high quality reprint in the 19670-80s ?

“Summer of 1904”

Lovers Kandinsky and Münter travelled to the Netherlands in the summer of 1904. Kandinsky is known to have created paintings of Amsterdam and the beach in Scheveningen. Gabrielle Münter choose a canal lined with poplars near Edam. In 1905 they would settle in Paris.

“Im Sommer - 1904”

Colour linoleum block print

The Gabrielle Münter Stiftung des Städtischen Galerie was founded in 1966 a few years after Gabrielle Münsters death in 1962 dating this high quality reprint in the 19670-80s ?

Trying to find out more about EPOCA prints published by the Munich gallery half a dozen examples were found:

1) A reproduction of Munch’s 1896 lithographic print: “Liebespaar in Wellen”. A heliographic reproduction exists published 1923 by Verlag Ernst Arnold, Dresden.

2) A reproduction of Maillol’s chalk drawing: “Modellstudie zum Denkmal für Claude Debussy”. In 1962 the Museum organised a Maillol exhibition.

3) A reproduction of Münter’s 1906 “Farblinolschnitt”: Kandinsky smoking a pipe. (Click picture)

4-7 Prints by Christian Rohlfs, AHP Grieshaber, Picasso etc

These Museum reproductions are probablyafter originals from the Museum’s collections.

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Julius Edmund Robert Nitsche

(Breslau 16-02-1882 - 1965 Munich)

Painter, illustrator, arts & crafts artist, interior- book cover and typographic designer, architect (interior design), graphic artist and printmaker. Worked for the illustrious “Jugend” Magazine. Married to Eva N.N.
Known to have worked in Breslau, Munich and Leipzig. Created several type-face (“Zierbuchstaben“) like “Unger Fraktur Initalen” for J. Klinkhardt 1910. Created a colour woodblock book plate (ex libris) for painter and paint manufacturer Fritz Behrendt* (1863-1946).

Known from a poster (“Plakat” 68 x 85 cm) for a 1911 Munich “Grosse Algemeine Hundeausstellung” with a barsoi (Russian greyhound). Also known from a bookplate for “Eva und Julius Nitsche”, also with a barsoi.
Works represented in Offenbach Klingspor Museum (spec. in book design and typography).

Dresslers KHB 1930: Munich, Türkenstrasse 97. Member BDG. (board member), RvbK.,DWB., DGfchrK.,KB., “die Unabhängigen”.

Possibly related to: Nitsche, Hinrich (Breslau 14-02-1845 - 08-11-1902 Tharandt), zoologist in Breslau and son-in-law to geographer Oscar Ferdinand Peschel (Dresden 1826 - 1875 Leipzig).

* Behrendt, Friedrich (Fritz)     (Memel 31-10-1863 - 13-02-1946 Fuerstenfeldbruck)

Painter and paint manufacturer. (Also Behrendt). Studied in Königsberg academy and in Karlsruhe academy under landscape painter and illustrator Hermann Baisch (1846-1894). Member of the Munich Secession 1903.
Friend of fauvist painter Oskar Moll* and said to have together developed “lichtbeständige” Behrendt-Farbe: a brand of light stable colour pigments (artist oil/based paint) known as “Berendt’schen Farben”. For the manufacturing of their products he owned a “Bitumen-Fabrik” in Grafrath near Fuertstenfeldbruck referring to the oil based paints he created.
Married to textile artist Olga Schierlitz (Hamburg 1867-1958) the daughter of a Hamburg merchant.

They had two daughters Hedda and Irmgard Mastaglio-Behrendt (Munich 23-01-1905 - 1990) studied in Munich under Angelo Jank (1868-1940), Karl Caspar (Friedrichshafen 1879 - 1956) and in the Munich painting school of Moritz Heymann (1870-1937). Fleeing from Silesia to Schleswig-Holstein at the ending of WW-II she lost all her work.

* Moll, Oskar    (Brzeg/Brieg, Prussia, now Poland 21-07-1875 - 19-08-1947 Berlin)

Fauvist painter who studied under Corinth, Leistikow. In Paris became acquainted in the Café de Dome circles meeting Matisse and Picasso. He started, with his wife Margarethe and their friend painter Hans Purrmann (1880-1966) the short lived “Académie Matisse”. Purrmann travelled to Paris in 1906 becoming a student and personal friend of Henri Matisse ((1869-1954). Appointed as professor in Breslau Academy succeeding August Endell (1871-1925). His work was declared “entarted”, displayed and confiscated by the Nazis after which they led a secluded life in Berlin. Their art collection consisting of numerous paintings, also by Matisse, Léger, Bracque and Picasso was destroyed in a 1943 allied bombing raid on Berlin. Their home destroyed they tried to find refuge in his home town but were forced to return to Berlin by the advancing Red-Army.
He was married to painter author and sculptor Marg Moll, born as Margarethe Haeffner (Mühlhausen 1884 - 1979 Munich).