Georg Muche [For Wilhelm Runge] 1916

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◧ Artist: Georg Muche (1895-1987)   
◧ Country: Germany
◧ Title: [For Wilhelm Runge]     
◧ Medium: Oil Painting on Cardboard   
◧ Painting Size: 47.5 cm x 42 cm

◧ Museum: Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

◧ Country of Stamp Issue: Germany
◧ Date of Issue: March 7, 1996
◧ Face Value: 200 Pfennig
◧ Issued as a part (5th) of 20th Century German Paintings Series


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Influenced by Wassily Kandinsky, Max Ernst, Paul Klee and Marc Chagall, he was one of the earliest German abstract artists.  Walter Gropius invited Muche in 1919 to join the Bauhaus art school in Weimar. At the urging of Lyonel Feininger, he accepted, becoming the youngest Master of Form at Bauhaus. Bauhaus was founded by Walther Gropius in Weimar as an art, design and architecture school. The goal of Bauhaus was to bring together art, handcrafts and architecture into one single synthesis of the arts.  Notable Bauhaus artists are: Johannes Itten, Gerhard Marcks, Lyonel Feininger, Georg Muche, Paul Klee, Oskar Schlemmer, Wassily Kandinsky, Josef Albers und Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. Muche left the Bauhaus in 1927 to join the faculty of Johannes Itten's Modern Art School of Berlin, where he taught until 1930.

Here are some other "abstract" works by Muche.



























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