Landscape with Red Spots

{{Short description|Painting by Wassily Kandinsky}}

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| image_file=Vassily Kandinsky, 1913 - Landscape With Red Spots.jpg

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| title=Landscape with Red Spots No 2

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| artist=Wassily Kandinsky

| year=1913

| medium=Oil on canvas

| height_metric=117.5

| width_metric=140

| museum=Peggy Guggenheim Collection

| city=Venice

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Landscape with Red Spots was the name given to each of two successive oil paintings produced in Bavaria in 1913 by the Russian émigré painter Wassily Kandinsky. The first is now in the Museum Folkwang, in Essen, Germany. The second, known as Landscape with Red Spots, No 2 (see picture at right), is in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, in Venice.

Between 1909 and the beginning of World War I, Kandinsky and his female companion, the painter Gabriele Münter, spent their summers in Murnau am Staffelsee on the edge of the Bavarian Alps. The village church of St Nikolaus and its prominent round tower feature several times in landscape paintings executed by the artist during his time there. As Kandinsky's style evolved over the period into abstract expressionism the images of the church and its surroundings became gradually less figurative and more abstract.{{cite web|url=http://sammlung-online.museum-folkwang.de/eMuseumPlus?service=direct/1/ResultLightboxView/result.t1.collection_lightbox.$TspTitleImageLink.link&sp=10&sp=Scollection&sp=SfilterDefinition&sp=0&sp=0&sp=1&sp=Slightbox_4x5&sp=20&sp=Sdetail&sp=0&sp=F&sp=T&sp=21|title=Museum Folkwang|publisher=Museum Folkwang|accessdate= 10 August 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.guggenheim-venice.it/en/art/works/landscape-with-red-spots-no-2/|title=Landscape with Red Spots, No. 2|publisher=Peggy Guggenheim Collection|accessdate= 10 August 2020}}{{cite web|url=https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/1871|title=Landscape with Red Spots, No. 2|publisher=Guggenheim Foundation|accessdate= 10 August 2020}}