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I should like once again to remind you please to obtain the necessary papers for the marriage. . . . If we can't have a room together there and I have to travel as a Miss and worry about the police because of the registration, then in the end I’d rather do without. . . . I just want to be together with you.—Münter to Kandinsky, August 23 and 25, 19131(p151,152)
German expressionist Gabriele Münter (1877-1962) began her love affair with Vasily Kandinsky in 1902 shortly after enrolling in his evening life classes with nude models at the Phalanx School. She had chosen the Phalanx because of her unhappiness with traditional art instruction.1 "There then," she said, "I had a new artistic experience, how—unlike other teachers—Kandinsky explained things in detail, clearly, and treated me as though I were a consciously striving person who can set herself problems and goals."2(p12) Soon after they met, the married Kandinsky found . . . [Full Text of this Article]
James C. Harris, MD
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