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Time Travel Back to 1926 and Watch Wassily Kandinsky Make Art in Some Rare Vintage Video

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Time Travel Back to 1926 and Watch Wassily Kandinsky Make Art in Some Rare Vintage Video
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to travel back in time and look over the shoulder of one of the early 20th century’s greatest artists to watch him work? In this brief film from 1926, we get to see the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky as he turns a blank canvas into one of his distinctive abstract compositions.
The film was made at the Galerie Neumann-Nierendorf in Berlin by Hans Cürlis, a pioneer in the making of art documentaries. At the time, Kandinsky was teaching at the Bauhaus

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