Word: russenhaus
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...became the headquarters of the Munich Fauves. Paul Klee lived two houses away, and near by were Alfred Kubin, Franz Marc, Alexei Jawlensky, August Macke. In painting excursions through southern Bavaria, Kandinsky and Gabriele discovered the village of Murnau, where they bought a house, called to this day the Russenhaus, with a fine view of the Alpine foothills. Kandinsky held court there too. "Every day is like a festival," Macke wrote. "At Kandinsky's we laugh all the time. He laughs like an ancient Greek, so loud and free, really Homeric...
Gabriele kept all the paintings Kandinsky had left with her, hiding them in Munich in storage during the first years of the Hitler regime when the Nazis wanted to burn them as decadent, and later building a storage room in the cellar of the Russenhaus, where the paintings remained until they were delivered to the Munich gallery. Last week, beyond one tight-lipped admission ("He was very aristocratic"), she refused to talk about Kandinsky. A brittle octogenarian with startlingly candid eyes and a gentle face, Gabriele still lives in the Russenhaus. The wooden staircase was decorated long...
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