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Among other posts Kandinsky was appointed a member of 13. See, for example, a letter to Adolph von Hildebrand,
the committee in charge of the International Bureau of the quoted in Selz: German Expressionist Painting, London, 1957.
department of Fine Arts in 1918. Tatlin was also a member. Interestingly enough Fielder introduced the concept of
During 1919 and 1920 Kandinsky became a member of the `inner necessity' into art theory.
committee set up to prepare and edit an Encylopedia of 14. It was Lipps (1851-1941) who developed the concept of
Fine Arts and had other administrative duties. In the com- Einfühlung into a comprehensive system.
mittee's Encyclopedia are two articles which, both from 15. Klaus Brisch has investigated Kandinsky's relationship
internal and external evidence, appear to have been written with theosophy and shows that there was a theosophical
by Kandinsky. They are: On the Point and On the Line. colour system which Kandinsky followed : Wassily Kandinsky,
7. Entitled 'Letters from Munich', of which there were five. 1866-1944. Untersuchung zur Entstehung der gegenstandlosen
8. The 1918 Committee of which Kandinsky was a mem- Malerei an seinem Werk von 1900-1921. (Typescript.) Disser-
ber was in close contact with German artists. The tation for the University of Bonn, 1955.
Bauhaus was mentioned in the Committee's bulletin and 16. Formschonheit und dekorative Kunst, Munich 1898, Vol. I.
the Moscow artists got in touch with Gropius, not directly, Endell had been a pupil of Lipps in the Faculty of Philo-
but in a letter addressed to Ludwig Bahr which Bahr sophy at Munich.
forwarded. Kandinsky was clearly interested in Bauhaus 17. In 1907. His correspondence with Franz Marc of 1910 also
principles long before he actually took up a post there. refers repeatedly to the expressive potential of colour,
9. Kandinsky in Russia, a short contribution by Kenneth similar to music, and to its psychological effect.
Lindsay to Gallery Maeght Kandinsky catalogue, 1951. 18. Kubin : Die Andere Seite, a novel of 1909, which was read by
10. Province to the East of Leningrad. Kandinsky, refers again and again to 'new formal struc-
11. Wassily Kandinsky: Foreword to the Second Exhibition of tures in accordance with secret rhythms that had been
the New Artists' Association of Munich 1910-11. borne in upon my consciousness'.
12. Gabriele Münter: Bekenntnisse und Erinnerungen, Menschen- 19. In 1911.
bilder in Zeichnungen, Berlin 1952. 20. L. Moholy-Nagy: Vision in Motion, Chicago, 1947.