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House Kandinsky/Klee, from the southeast 2000
Photo: Gunnar Preuss |
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Kandinsky House, stairwell
2003
Photo: Jacobshagen
© Stadt Dessau |
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Despite their reservations concerning the architecture Wassily and
Nina Kandinsky were happy with the new quality of the Masters' Houses:
"We couldn't invite many people in Weimar because the flat was
too small. Dessau changed that. Now, at last, we can ask our countless
friends and acquaintances to visit us. Twice a year we let loose in
our house: for New Year's Eve we invited the Klee, Grote and Albers
families. Muche and his wife were also on the guest list." The
semi-detached houses of Kandinsky and Klee with their colourful internal
decor and fittings made a complete contrast to the Gropius architecture.
Kandinsky's finished colour designs for the living room, his atelier
and other rooms clearly show that he was interested in autonomous
artistic spaces. The living room was furnished with older pieces that
did not, for example, stem from the Bauhaus. The niche with its golden
colour - arranged with sofa, carpet and painting - was a production
of a very special type of space.The Kandinskys felt so at home in
Dessau that they took out naturalisation papers. On 8 March 1928 Wassily
and Nina Kandinsky received their German passports that finally gave
them the chance to travel even outside Germany.
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