1909

Münter buys a house in Murnau.
The Neue Künstlervereinigung München (NKVM) begins its activities. The first NKVM exhibition takes place in Munich at the Thannhauser Gallery from 1 to 15 December; Kandinsky creates a lithograph poster for the occasion.
Kandinsky produces his first eight Improvisations — Improvisation 3, Improvisation 4, Improvisation 6 (African), among others. The Improvisations, in his own words, represent "a largely unconscious, spontaneous expression of inner character."
Kandinsy meets the composer Thomas von Hartmann, with whom he would later develop ideas on synthetic art.
Kandinsky participates in exhibitions of the Berlin Secession, in The Hague, and in London under the auspices of the Allied Artists Association at the Albert Hall.
Around this time, an incident occurs that Kandinsky would later recount: returning to his studio, he failed to recognize one of his own paintings standing on its side, and saw in it "an extraordinary beauty glowing with an inner radiance... Now I knew for certain that the subject matter was detrimental for my paintings."