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1930

• In August, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe becomes director of the Bauhaus, replacing Hannes Meyer, who was dismissed for his communist sympathies. The new director depoliticizes the school and reorients its curriculum toward architecture. Kandinsky retains his position, but his free painting course is gradually marginalized. Political instability in the country continues to escalate.
  
• Kandinsky's painting undergoes a shift: small forms and their combinations appear on his canvases, possibly alluding to objects from nature, along with experiments in optical illusion. As always, the artist remains in constant search of a new visual language. Key works: Serious – Fun, Capricious, Unstable Balance, Three Rectangles, and Shallow – Deep.
  
• In his theoretical views during the 1930s, Kandinsky moves from radical ideas toward a concept of the simultaneous coexistence of the figurative and the non-objective — of "great realism" and "great abstraction," of "analysis" and "synthesis" in art.
  
• From 14 to 31 March, a solo exhibition is held at the Galerie de France in Paris. To coincide with the event, in addition to the catalogue, a monograph by Will Grohmann is published — a substantial study of Kandinsky's work, issued in the prestigious series Les Grands Peintres d'Aujourd'hui by the Éditions Cahiers d'Art. However, the French art world receives his work coolly, and the exhibition does not bring the artist particular popularity.
  

Works

Serious- Fun

Capricious

Unstable Balance

Three Rectangles

Shallow-Deep

Leichtes

Far Away

Angular Line

From Light into Dark

Diagonal

Disintegrated Tension

Green Emptyness

Examination

Angular Structure

Almost Submerged

Jolly

Surfaces and Lines

Calmed

White

Yellow Border

Photography

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