Akhtyrka. Main Entrance of the Datcha by Wassily Kandinsky, 1917 somerset Argentoratum (Strasbourg)

Argentoratum (Strasbourg)

Around 1904

Principal Railways: Shown with dashed lines representing key railway routes

this series became Bartholomew's flagship

Akhtyrka. Main Entrance of the Datcha by Wassily Kandinsky, 1917 somerset Argentoratum (Strasbourg)Akhtyrka. Main Entrance of the Datcha (1917) by Wassily Kandinsky captures a quiet thresholda country house gatewaytransformed into a charged, modern image. Painted in 1917, this scene from Akhtyrka reflects a pivotal moment in Kandinskys evolution, as he moved from observed motifs to the expressive color relationships and rhythmic structures that would define his mature abstraction. The view is intimate and place based, yet the artists hand turns an