Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VIII
Kandinsky's 1923 landmark from his first Bauhaus years, where discs, triangles and taut lines float free across a pale ground in pure geometric music. Reproduction of a public domain artwork; the original oil is held by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Paul Klee, Senecio
Paul Klee builds a serene, faintly comic head from warm rectangles of ochre and rose, one of the best loved faces of the Bauhaus years. Reproduction of a public domain artwork; the original is held by the Kunstmuseum Basel.
Wassily Kandinsky, On White II
Sharp blacks and primary shapes cross a white field in Kandinsky's 1923 study of tension and balance, form set against the clarity of empty ground. Reproduction of a public domain artwork; the original oil is held by the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
László Moholy-Nagy, Construction
László Moholy-Nagy layers translucent planes and a single diagonal of light across a deep black field, a Constructivist study in transparency and energy from his Bauhaus years. Reproduction of a public domain artwork; the original is held by the Städel Museum, Frankfurt.
Paul Klee, Castle and Sun
Paul Klee stacks a glowing city of colored blocks and gabled roofs beneath a burning red sun, a warm mosaic of reds, greens and blues from his Bauhaus teaching years. Reproduction of a public domain artwork by Paul Klee (Castle and Sun, 1928).
Paul Klee, Fish Magic
Fish, flowers and a moonlit clock tower drift through a dark dreamlike deep in one of Paul Klee's most enchanting canvases, its colors scratched to life from a black ground. Reproduction of a public domain artwork; the original is held by the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Wassily Kandinsky, Yellow-Red-Blue
Kandinsky weighs a warm yellow grid against a cool blue circle across a luminous field, his 1925 meditation on the three primary colors as pure force and counterforce. Reproduction of a public domain artwork; the original oil is held by the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
László Moholy-Nagy, E IV
László Moholy-Nagy floats crossing bars of red, yellow and blue with a gray lens and a black disc across deep space, an early Constructivist study in weightless geometry. Reproduction of a public domain artwork; the original is held by the Staatliche Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.