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1933


  • On April 11, police and the SS conduct a search of the Berlin Bauhaus building and seal it. 32 students are placed under arrest. The Nazis issue an ultimatum: the school can continue to exist only on the condition that the "politically unreliable" Ludwig Hilberseimer and Wassily Kandinsky are dismissed. On July 20, the faculty council decides to dissolve the school.
  • In the summer, Kandinsky paints Development in Brown (Entwicklung in Braun) and Gloomy Situation" (Trübe Lage). Art critics agree that both the titles and the somber palette directly reference the brown uniforms of the Nazi stormtroopers (SA) and the darkness engulfing Germany.
  • During the same summer, the Nazi authorities begin open persecution of the artist: his paintings are denounced as Cultural Bolshevism and removed from public spaces (they would later be included in the category of so-called "degenerate art"). In
  • July, the Kandinskys leave for a summer holiday in the Toulon area in the south of France. They return in September, already holding documents for an apartment in Paris. In December, the Kandinskys emigrate to France and settle in the quiet Parisian suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, in an apartment overlooking the Seine.
  • In October, an exhibition of works by the Blue Four group takes place at the Los Angeles Museum.


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