Most fortunately, the exhibition is able to juxtapose Kandinsky's late paintings Levels (1929) and Around The Circle (1940) with the Udegei Shaman's Coat from St. Petersburg (Ill.). It is all too easily forgotten that Russian and Bavarian folk art and an intense involvement with the attributes of the cult of shamans - as well as Art Nouveau, which had already completed the transition to abstraction (Endell and Obrist) by the time Kandinsky arrived in Munich in 1896 - were important sources of inspiration for the pioneer of non-figurative art. This section shows how the arabesque line entered Kandinsky's pictorial conception via Art Nouveau, triggering his revolutionary achievements in 1911/12 and then recurring intermittently right up to his late period.