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Which paintings represent the peak of Wassily Kandinsky’s Munich period?

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Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center — Wassily Kandinsky *Painting with Green Center*, oil on canvas by Wassily Kandinsky, 1913; in the Art Institute of Chicago.

Most art historians consider the peak of Wassily Kandinsky’s achievement during his Munich period to be represented by his major works created between 1912 and 1913. These paintings are characterized by a slashing, splashing, and dramatic style that anticipated the development of New York Abstract Expressionism in the 1950s.1

Key works identified as representing this peak include:

These paintings emerged as the culmination of a process Kandinsky began around 1909 in Murnau, where he moved away from figurative art toward a purely abstract visual language. While earlier works such as Improvisation XIV (1910) and Encircled (1911) were essential steps in his evolution toward nonrepresentation, the works from 1912 and 1913 are widely cited by historians as the height of his artistic output during this era.1