Resumen de 'Blue Spiritual Sounds': Kandinsky and the Sadlers, 1911-16
'Blue Spiritual Sounds': Kandinsky and the Sadlers, 1911-16 By Adrian Glew The cataloguing of the papers in the Tate Gallery Archive of Sir Michael Sadler and his son, Michael Sadleir (Fig.29), both important collectors of modern art,' has brought to light details of their friendship with Kandinsky, and in particular how the artist's celebrated text Uber das Geistige in der Kunst, first issued in 1912 by Reinhard Piper in Berlin, came to be published in an English translation by Sadleir (Fig.31).2 A noted educational reformer, Sir Michael Ernest Sadler (1861- 1943) was at this period Vice-Chancellor of Leeds University (1911-23). His son, Michael T.H. Sadleir (1888-1957; he adopted the older spelling of the surname to avoid confusion with his father, whose biography he wrote),3 was a successful novelist, publisher and bibliographer. Although Kandinsky's letters to Sadler and his son are primarily concerned with practical matters, they contain sufficient substance to be classed as an important new source for Kandinsky's literary and artistic output at this critical stage in his development.
