Jannelli & Volpi Kandinsky Collection
Founded in 1961 by Oreste Jannelli with his wife and brother in-laws, Jannelli & Volpi are market leaders in the finest Italian wallpaper, producing wallpaper to the highest standards in style and quality.
For this brand focus we delve into the world of JV Design Licence. This wallcovering brand under the Jannelli & Volpi umbrella creates iconic design products that draw inspiration from the most famous artworks and, thanks to Jannelli & Volpi collaborations, create contemporary wallcoverings from these famous designs.
“Composition – A tribute to Kandinsky” from JV License is inspired by the work of the Impressionist painter – Wassily Kandinsky. The aim of this collection is to bring homage for the artist known as the pioneer of abstract painting.
The creator of the first modern abstract paintings, Wassily Kandinsky was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. In his youth, he studied law and economics at the University of Moscow and was later hired as a professor of Roman law at the University of Dorpat in Estonia. He was 30 years old when he began his painting studies at the University of Munich, his primary focus at this time was on life drawing, sketching and anatomy. He was not originally accepted into the school as an art student, so he initially began learning art by himself, gaining artistic insight from Monet’s Haystacks and Richard Wagner’s composition, Lohengrin. He was also influenced by the teachings of anthroposophy, as such, his abstract works were a creation of his intense philosophical beliefs, based on his own personal experiences with art. The devotion to inner beauty remained a central theme in his art.
In 1914, after the beginning of World War I, Kandinsky returned to Moscow, where he did not find much inspiration in the art world, so in 1921, he returned to Munich. There he taught at the Bauhaus school of architecture, until it was closed by the Nazis in 1933. He was an active art theorist, publishing a number of books on art theory, and developing a complex and deeply emotional theory about the ability of colours and shapes to represent sound and evince human emotion. After the Bauhaus was closed, Kandinsky moved to Paris, where he was mostly isolated from the other Impressionist or Cubist painters. He later became a French citizen and lived the rest of his days there.
Jannelli & Volpi’s tribute to Kandinsky is based on the distinctive traits of his work. The designs focus on Kandinsky’s use of colour, in all its ‘nuances’, from its use as a connection between spirituality and the work of art, to the shapes he created through music.
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Fionn, our Sales Executive, loves: Sfumatura from COMPOSITION A Tribute To Kandinsky
“An wonderful explosion of expression and colour across the wall”
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