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Russian émigré artists and political opposition in fin-de-siècle Munich

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Kochman 19the events of 1905 <strong>Munich</strong> <strong>and</strong> the Bavarian government’swill<strong>in</strong>gness to support tsarist policy. 106The momentum the NKVM <strong>and</strong> Der Blaue Reiter ha<strong>de</strong>stablished was <strong>in</strong>terrupted by World War I as <strong>Russian</strong>s wereforced to evacuate Germany <strong>and</strong> German troops were<strong>de</strong>ployed. On its eve however, K<strong>and</strong><strong>in</strong>sky was work<strong>in</strong>g onanother editorial project directed towards his <strong>in</strong>terest <strong>in</strong>reform 107 while Werefk<strong>in</strong> had been establish<strong>in</strong>g professionalconnections for herself <strong>and</strong> Jawlensky <strong>in</strong> Vilnius, <strong>in</strong> t<strong>and</strong>emwith another family visit. 108 While K<strong>and</strong><strong>in</strong>sky’s book nevermaterialized <strong>and</strong> Werefk<strong>in</strong> was forced to abruptly evacuateto Switzerl<strong>and</strong> from <strong>Munich</strong> with the war’s <strong>de</strong>claration, both<strong>artists</strong> believed non-naturalist abstraction would be thelanguage with which their i<strong>de</strong>als could be realized. Socialreform <strong>and</strong> art’s contribution to the improvement of thehuman condition seemed achievable outsi<strong>de</strong> the parametersof naturalism, through a language based on an organicun<strong>de</strong>rst<strong>and</strong><strong>in</strong>g of subjective personal experience, emotionally<strong>and</strong>/or spiritually driven. Never hav<strong>in</strong>g been written, it wascompletely free to associate any mean<strong>in</strong>g to its content - forthe viewer <strong>and</strong> the artist, <strong>and</strong> circumvented the exist<strong>in</strong>g systemof accountability with which art had been traditionallyevaluated.REFERENCESAmbrozic, Katar<strong>in</strong>a. Wege zur Mo<strong>de</strong>rne und die Azbé-Schule<strong>in</strong> München. Reckl<strong>in</strong>ghausen: Aurel Bongers, 1988.Baranovskii, Viktor I. <strong>and</strong> Ir<strong>in</strong>a B. Khlebnikova. Anton Azhbei Khudozhniki Rossii. 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