Richard Morris: Kandinsky's 'View from the Window,' (1904) is a neat encapsulation of the niceties of Amsterdam: the view is from an upper window of the American Hotel on the Leidseplein, showing the bridge over the Singel gracht, the towers of the Lido, the Vondelpark, and the Park Hotel.

Kandinsky's 'View from the Window,' (1904) is a neat encapsulation of the niceties of Amsterdam: the view is from an upper window of the American Hotel on the Leidseplein, showing the bridge over the Singel gracht, the towers of the Lido, the Vondelpark, and the Park Hotel.