1934

In April 1933, after the Nazi Party came to power, the Bauhaus school was closed. The pressure on avant-garde artists in Germany was growing stronger and stronger, and in 1934 Wassily and Nina moved to Paris. This painting is one of the first created after the move and belongs to the so-called "biomorphic abstractions" that replaced the strict geometric outlines of his German period. In this case, a certain role was played by scientific discoveries in biology. In fact, Kandinsky began experimenting with new forms while he was still in Germany. However, the creative peak of his biomorphic period came during his years in Paris, which is why it is also called the "Paris period."

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