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Wassily Kandinsky spent 11 years of his career teaching at the famed German Bauhaus, travelling with the school as it moved from Weimar to Dessau to Berlin. Among the courses he taught was a wall painting workshop, but the permanence of the mural must have felt at odds with the nomadic nature of the wandering institute. Drawings and small paintings, with their intimate scale, must have made more sense, and this 1926 film highlights the artist’s command of his medium. On 6 June, visitors to the Milwaukee Art Museum will have the opportunity to see the German artist’s work with the opening of “Kandinsky: a Retrospective.”

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