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Schönberg, Kandinsky, Blauer Reiter und die Russische Avantgarde. Die Kunst gehört dem Unbewußten – Art belongs to the unconscious, 9. März bis 28. Mai 2000. Herausgegeben von Christian Meyer.
Arnold Schönberg Center 2000
(ISBN 3-902012-01-3)
(Journal of the Arnold Schönberg Center 1/2000)


Content

Arnold Schönberg und Wassily Kandinsky Biographische Annäherungen / Matthias Schmidt
Schönberg and Kandinsky - Emancipations / Esther da Costa Meyer
Schönberg and Kandinsky Friendship and Dissonance / Christopher Hailey
Arnold Schönberg und der Blaue Reiter / Helmut Friedel und Annegret Hoberg
Music and Russian Avant-Garde Art / Evgenia Petrova
Das Konzert München, 2. Januar 1911
Schönberg und Kandinsky - Bühnenkompositionen
Arnold Schönberg als Maler
Arnold Schönberg: Bildteil
Schönberg, Kandinsky und die Russische Avantgarde


Abstract

The exhibition at the Arnold Schönberg Center with the title “Schönberg, Kandinsky, Blauer Reiter and the Russian Avant-garde” is based on contemporaneous painting and music. It reveals analogies astounding to composers and to painters, in this way describing what is impossible to describe with the traditional vocabulary. The main objective of this examination is not to prove the direct influence of a piece of music on a particular picture (this is only unequivocally possible in the case of Kandinsky’s ”Impression III”), or vice versa. Rathermore, the works chosen make clear the ability of these artists to produce modern works years, or even decades, before the dissolution and reconstitution of society and politics. Schönberg’s theory that art belongs to the unconscious appears to be the key to the visionary power of the works shown, and is a challenge to the artist as well as to the viewer to look into the future beyond the beginning of the new century, with the same claims.