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Well, we will indeed see how things develop and what will become of our art! In any case, artists should remain apolitical and only think of their work and dedicate all their energies to this work.

— Wassily Kandinsky

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both were closely connected with the Bauhaus, closed by the Nazi-regime in 1933

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