Exciting news to report today: my first sighting of honest-to-goodness
Wadlstrümpfe, and on the legs of none other than Wassily Kandinsky himself, one of the pioneers of abstract art in the 20th-century! The dark green calf-stockings were captured by Gabriele Münter in her 1912 painting,
Kandinsky mit Erma Bossi am Tisch ("Kandinsky at the table with Erma Bossi"). The table in the painting was in Münter's house, in Murnau, in Oberbayern, so I'm guessing the Wadlstrümpfe were the real Bavarian thing.
One of the swell perks of living in Freiburg is that when your kid learns about a European artist at school, like Elias is now learning about Gabriele Münter, it's often possible to hop in the car and, within a few hours' drive, see original works by that artist. Thus it was that Elias and I drove an hour north to Baden-Baden today, to visit the the
Museum Frieder Burda for an exhibit of works by artists of the group
Der Blaue Reiter--Marc, Macke, Kandinsky, Münter, Jawlensky, Werefkin, Klee, and Campendonk. (Stefan, alas, could not join us, as he's busy being an academic in California this week.) The beautiful, airy museum was built by publishing heir Frieder Burda to house and make public his art collection. The paintings we saw today were on loan from the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in München.
Baden-Baden, like
Badenweiler and all the other Bad- and Baden- towns around here, has been a popular spa town since Roman times if not before. The name Baden-Baden means "Baden-in-Baden" (like "Freiburg im Breisgau"), meaning "the town Baden that's in the state Baden." It's like saying, in the U.S., "Rochester, Minnesota" versus "Rochester, New York."
As we walked to the museum, we passed through the Trinkhalle, where Elias tried a sip of the healing waters.
Exciting news to report today: my first sighting of honest-to-goodness Wadlstrümpfe, and on the legs of none other than Wassily Kandinsky himself, one of the pioneers of abstract art in the 20th-century! The dark green calf-stockings were captured by Gabriele Münter in her 1912 painting, Kandinsky mit Erma Bossi am Tisch ("Kandinsky at the table with Erma Bossi"). The table in the painting was in Münter's house, in Murnau, in Oberbayern, so I'm guessing the Wadlstrümpfe were the real Bavarian thing.
One of the swell perks of living in Freiburg is that when your kid learns about a European artist at school, like Elias is now learning about Gabriele Münter, it's often possible to hop in the car and, within a few hours' drive, see original works by that artist. Thus it was that Elias and I drove an hour north to Baden-Baden today, to visit the the Museum Frieder Burda for an exhibit of works by artists of the group Der Blaue Reiter--Marc, Macke, Kandinsky, Münter, Jawlensky, Werefkin, Klee, and Campendonk. (Stefan, alas, could not join us, as he's busy being an academic in California this week.) The beautiful, airy museum was built by publishing heir Frieder Burda to house and make public his art collection. The paintings we saw today were on loan from the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in München.
Baden-Baden, like Badenweiler and all the other Bad- and Baden- towns around here, has been a popular spa town since Roman times if not before. The name Baden-Baden means "Baden-in-Baden" (like "Freiburg im Breisgau"), meaning "the town Baden that's in the state Baden." It's like saying, in the U.S., "Rochester, Minnesota" versus "Rochester, New York."
As we walked to the museum, we passed through the Trinkhalle, where Elias tried a sip of the healing waters.
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Wadlstrümpfe and sandals! Makes my heart beat faster.
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