Friedlich
1930
✦ Highlights (technique & color)
クレーの作品との構造的な並行性が見どころです。平らな水平線から立ち上がり、上部へ扇状に拡張する形や、クレーの描いた羽毛や翼を幾何学的な三角形へと変換しています。また、クレーが先駆的に用いていた絵の具の吹き付け技法（スプレー）を取り入れ、空気のような繊細な青い背景を作り出しました。その上に黒インクの図形が浮遊し、無限の空間性が表現されています。
✦ The setting of this painting
具体的な外界の風景ではなく、隣室で活動していた盟友ポール・クレーが1927年に制作した重要水彩画『Tripelmarionette（トリプルマリオネット）』の絵画的構造との、極めて濃密な「抽象的・絵画的な対話」が舞台空間として設定されています。クレーが描いた輪郭を注意深く参照し、それらを純粋な幾何学的エネルギーへと再構成した空間です。
✦ Historical context
1930年、カンディンスキーとクレーはデッサウのバウハウスに勤務し、マイスターハウスの隣同士に暮らしていました。二人は午後の紅茶を共に楽しむ親しい隣人でありながら、最高度の知的でプロフェッショナルな競争関係にありました。この幸福な共同生活は、1931年のクレーの離職や、その後のナチスによるバウハウスの閉鎖によって突然の終焉を迎えることになります。
Within a pale yellow space, vibrant triangles overlap.
From a horizontal line below, geometric forms fan outward and upward.
Fine particles, like a blue mist, drift softly across the background.
Dessau, Germany, 1930.
Kandinsky and Paul Klee were both teaching at the Bauhaus in Dessau, living next door to each other in residences designed for the faculty.
They were close neighbors who enjoyed afternoon tea together on the terrace.
At the same time, they were intellectual and professional rivals of the highest order.
Between the two of them, there was a quiet tradition.
Ever since the formation of Der Blaue Reiter in 1911, they had exchanged their own works as gifts on each other's birthdays.
Each winter, they shared these offerings through their art.
December 4, 1931.
On Kandinsky's 65th birthday, Klee gave him a masterpiece of his own:
a 1927 work titled Tripelmarionette.
Kandinsky was profoundly moved.
Then arrived December 18.
On Klee's birthday, Kandinsky presented him with this painting—
a watercolor he had completed in his studio the previous September.
In the center of the mount, he had written a special dedication in his own hand:
"To my old, dear friend."
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