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On White II

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On White II, originally titled in German Auf Weiss II, is a 1923 oil on canvas painting by the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, made while he was a teacher at the Bauhaus in Weimar. It hung in the dining room of Kandinsky's own apartment at the Bauhaus in Dessau before entering the collection of the Musee National d'Art Moderne in Paris in 1976 as a gift from his widow, Nina Kandinsky.

Facts
Year Created
1923 1
Medium
Oil on canvas 1
Location
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Paris 1
Classification
Genre
Painting 1
Medium
Medium (category)
Oil on Canvas 1
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Source Auf Weiss II (Sur blanc II) (Wikipedia)

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Painting, Art Forms
Source Auf Weiss II (Sur blanc II) (Wikipedia)

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Painting, Art Forms

Entity-backed identity for the genre enum value this work already carries, resolved to an arts art-form by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The genre fact itself, with its own citation, stays on the work unchanged.

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1. On White II - Wikipedia
  • Infobox, Year
    1923
  • Infobox, Medium
    Oil on canvas
  • Infobox, Location
    Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris
  • Genre reference
    On White II, originally titled in German Auf Weiss II, is a 1923 oil on canvas painting by the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, made while he was a teacher at the Bauhaus in Weimar.
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Auf Weiss II (Sur blanc II) (Wikipedia)
  • In Form: Painting, lead paragraph
    Auf Weiss II (Sur blanc II), in English: On White II, is a 1923 oil-on-canvas painting by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky. It was created when the artist was a teacher at the Bauhaus in Weimar. The painting initially hung in the
  • Created By: Wassily Kandinsky, lead paragraph
    Auf Weiss II (Sur blanc II), in English: On White II, is a 1923 oil-on-canvas painting by Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky. It was created when the artist was a teacher at the Bauhaus in Weimar. The painting initially hung in the
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