Schwarzer Fleck (Black Spot) from Klange (Sounds)

AAT Object Form/FunctionWoodcuts (prints)

Date1913

MediumWoodcut

Credit LineArt History Department Fund

Dimensions10 11/16 x 10 1/4 in. (27.1 x 26 cm)

Object number1977.004

Label TextIn the late 19th and early 20th Centuries artists began to experiment with earlier printmaking techniques that had gradually fallen out of use. Vasily Kandinsky, working in Munich just after the turn of the century, became particularly interested in the woodcut. The simplification of design required by the woodcut technique moved Kandinsky towards an ever greater abstraction over the next few years, culminating in works like Black Spot.
Exhibition HistoryA Preview of the Collections, Schatten Gallery, February 15 - April 4, 1982
19th and 20th Century Art in the Collection, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, July 20 - September 14, 1985
Pathos and Passion: German Expressionist Works on Paper, organized by the High Museum of Art at the Georgia Pacific Center, Atlanta, Georgia, May 14 - August 4, 1991
Style and Technique: Prints from the Collection of the Carlos Museum, Michael C. Carlos Museum, January 18 - May 4, 1997
Invention and Revival, Michael C. Carlos Museum, February 12 - May 15, 2005
Embodied Seeing: Modernist Works on Paper, Michael C. Carlos Museum, February 4 - May 20, 2012
The Eye, The Mind, and the Heart: In Honor of Clark Poling, Michael C. Carlos Museum, January 15 - March 5, 2022
Published ReferencesEmory University, Campus Report (August 7, 1978), 1.
Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology: A Preview of the Collections, Atlanta, Georgia, February 15 - April 4, 1982 (Atlanta: The Museum, 1982), 14.
MCCM Newsletter, Spring-Summer 2012.

ProvenanceEx coll. Emory University Art History Department, purchased from Galerie Nierendorf, Berlin, Germany, 1977. Transferred to Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, ca. 1981.

Status

Not on view

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