The Black and Violet painting ranges among the artist’s most important works resulting from a wonderful combination of circumstances, which can occur only a few times in a lifetime, even with creative artists of such calibre. Those components were the time, place and environment. Revival of all types of arts after the First World War and the growing interest in abstract painting provided a favorable climate. The Bauhaus school, the most advanced center for theoretical and practical surveys in Europe at the moment, was a fertile ground for new ideas. And the inspiring company of colleagues – Kandinsky worked with such artists as Albers, Bayer, Breyer, Feininger, Gropius, Itten, Klee, Moholy-Nagy, Muche, Schlemmer, Schreyer and others – became a great creative catalyst.
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