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Jelena Hahl-Fontaine, formerly Hahl-Koch, (PhD, Art History and Slavic Studies, Heidelberg) is one of the world's leading Kandinsky scholars, her professional life having centered on Kandinsky for over 60 years. She was Curator of the Kandinsky archive at Lenbachhaus, Munich, the primary Kandinsky repository. Publications include a major monograph, Kandinsky; Arnold Schoenberg / Wassily Kandinsky: Letters, Pictures and Documents; Kandinsky Forum vols. I-IV; and many writings
on A. Jawlensky, A. Sacharoff, V. Bekhtejeff, the Russian avant-garde, and more. Taught at the Universities of Erlangen, Bern; Austin, Texas; and Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. Has lectured widely at prestigious venues of Europe, America and Australia. Newest book: Kandinsky: A Life in Letters 1880-1944 (Hirmer, 2023).
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Curator, writer and editor, Kandinsky Anew Series
Lissa Tyler Renaud  MA/MFA Directing, PhD Dramatic Art with Art History (thesis on Kandinsky's theatre work), summa cum laude, UC Berkeley, 1987. Lifelong actress, director. Founder, the influential Oakland-based InterArts Training/Actors' Training Project for her signature actor-scholar training inspired by Kandinsky's teachings. She has taught, lectured, edited, founded, published much-translated works on Kandinsky, acting, dramatic theory and the early European avant-garde, throughout the U.S. and, since 2004, in England, Mexico, Sweden, Brazil, Russia, and on the faculties of the National University of the Arts of Korea and Taipei (Taiwan), at Shanghai Theatre Academy (China), Lokadharmi Theatre Center (India), and other major theatre institutions of Asia. Her well-known recitals feature Kandinsky's poetry.
For her other articles, check the Archives.

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