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In 1905, Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter spent three months in Tunisia. Side by side during this little-documented trip, they created around 540 works, which are presented in this publication as a visual travel journal. Both were experiencing Arab culture for the first time in Tunisia, where they were fascinated by the alleyways of the medinas, folkish scenes, and Muslim places of worship, the mosques and cemeteries, as well as Arabic scripts and applied arts. This is the first publication devoted entirely to the little-known group of works from their Tunisian stay. Around half of the material has not been published before, presented here for the first time in a comprehensive catalogue and analysed against the context of its creation.
First comprehensive study and cataloguing of Wassily Kandinsky’s and Gabriele Münter’s trip to Tunisia
Direct comparison of Kandinsky’s and Münter’s works
Presentation of 540 artworks, about half of which have never been published before
Dominique Jarrassé is professor emeritus of Contemporary Art History at the University of Bordeaux. He teaches at the École du Louvre in Paris. His research covers the art of the Prix de Rome, colonial art, and the ethnicisation of art history. He conducted many years of research in Tunisia, focusing on Jewish heritage and colonial-era art. While there, he identified the works created by Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter on their journey in 1905.
Isabelle Jansen has been curator and managing director of the Gabriele Münter and Johannes Eichner Foundation since 2011. Her research focuses on Expressionism, in particular the art of Gabriele Münter and German-French relations in art.
Dominique Jarrassé, Université de Bordeaux; Isabelle Jansen, Gabriele Münter- und Johannes Eichner-Stiftung Munich