Wassily Kandinsky
Murnau – Castle and Church
From $80
This painting is deep blues and vivid greens with a band of white water, and a dull copy flattens the greens. Our Wassily Kandinsky Staffelsee print was graded so the greens stay vivid and the blue hills stay deep.
Canvas, framed or paper
Stretched canvas. Printed on cotton canvas and stretched taut over a frame. The edges are mirror-wrapped, so the picture continues around the sides and none of it is lost to the fold.
Framed canvas. The same canvas, set in a black, white, natural wood or dark wood frame 0.83 in deep. The frame gives the work a finished edge and a little more presence on the wall.
Framed print. Printed on fine art matte paper and framed in solid pine, behind shatterproof plexiglass, in black, white, natural wood or dark wood. It arrives ready to hang. Framed sizes are measured on the outside of the frame.
Fine art print. Printed on 310gsm fine art matte paper, for framing your own way. It travels rolled and protected. From 18x24 inch.
Sizes
20x16 inch, 30x24 inch, 40x32 inch. Framed sizes are measured on the outside of the frame, so the visible painting is a little smaller.
On your wall
Its wide shape suits a living room, a bedroom or a hallway, and it is a favourite for mountain lovers. The blues and greens look fresh with white, sage and oak, and a natural wood frame suits it.
About the painting
Murnau – View over the Staffelsee by Wassily Kandinsky
The lake
The Staffelsee is the lake right beside Murnau, under the peaks of the Bavarian Alps. Wassily Kandinsky painted this view in 1908, his first year working in the village with Gabriele Münter.
Colour
It is a small oil sketch on cardboard, the mountains blue, the fields vivid green, the trees dark, all laid down in broad patches of colour.
Münter’s gift
Gabriele Münter kept it, hid it through the war at her house in Murnau, and gave it to Munich’s Lenbachhaus with about a thousand Blue Rider works on her 80th birthday.
Read the story
This small painting has a remarkable story of survival.
Murnau is a market town in Bavaria, with the Staffelsee lake right beside it and the peaks of the Alps to the south.
In 1908 Wassily Kandinsky and the painter Gabriele Münter began working there. Wassily Kandinsky was a law lecturer in Moscow until, at thirty, he gave it all up to paint in Munich.
That year he painted this view over the lake on a piece of cardboard, only about thirty-three by forty-one centimetres.
Blue mountains, vivid green fields, dark trees, a pale band of water, all laid down in quick patches of colour.
The next year Münter bought a house in Murnau.
Gabriele Münter kept it for decades. In the 1930s she hid his paintings from the Nazis in her house at Murnau, and on her eightieth birthday she gave about a thousand Blue Rider works to Munich's Lenbachhaus, this one among them.
The museum still has the largest collection of Blue Rider art anywhere in the world.
Look at the blue mountains first, and then down to the lake.
Murnau, View over the Staffelsee. Wassily Kandinsky, 1908.
How each piece is brought to life
Faithful to the original, and made to be felt on your wall.
Graded against the original
We compare every work with the original as we grade it, keeping the artist’s colours true while bringing back their depth and glow. Every mark stays the artist’s own.
Printed for you
Printed to order on cotton canvas or fine art paper, then framed if you chose a frame, in 1 to 3 business days.
On your wall
It arrives 5 to 12 business days later, tracked and free anywhere in the US. Framed pieces come ready to hang.
Questions
Is this the original painting?
No. The original hangs in a museum. What you receive is a fine art reproduction, remastered from the original and printed for you, with every mark where the artist left it.
Will the colour look flat?
This is where most reproductions disappoint, and it is where we spend the most time. Each work is graded side by side with the original: faithful to the artist’s colours, with the depth and warmth brought back, so it moves you on the wall the way it was meant to. Canvas reads a touch softer than a backlit screen, and every screen shows colour a little differently.
Will the edges be cropped?
Each size is a standard frame size, so we fit the painting by trimming a little from its edges. We never stretch or squash it, and we check every size by eye so no face, figure or signature is cut. On canvas the edges are mirror-wrapped, which keeps the whole picture on the front.
Which size is right for my wall?
Aim for about two-thirds the width of the furniture beneath it. Over a sofa or a sideboard, one of the two largest sizes will hold the wall. The size guide lists every size in inches and centimetres, with the kind of wall each one suits.
How long does it take?
Your piece is printed in 1–3 business days, then spends 5–12 business days in transit, tracked all the way. Delivery is free anywhere in the US. We are unable to deliver to PO boxes.
What if it arrives damaged?
Send us a photograph and we will remake it and send it again. There is nothing to return.
Can I return it?
Yes, within 30 days of delivery. Our returns policy has the details.
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Printed to order
Graded against the original, then printed for you on cotton canvas or fine art paper in 1–3 business days.
The whole painting
Every mark is the artist’s own, and canvas edges are mirror-wrapped so the whole picture stays on the front.
Free US shipping
On every order, tracked, 5–12 business days in transit.
30-day returns
Returns and exchanges within 30 days of delivery.
