Wassily Kandinsky
1866-1944 Wassily Kandinsky Galleries was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose to study law and economics. Quite successful in his profession??he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat??he started painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. In 1896 he settled in Munich and studied first in the private school of Anton Azbe and then at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He went back to Moscow in 1914 after World War I started. He was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Moscow and returned to Germany in 1921. There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France where he lived the rest of his life, and became a French citizen in 1939. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944.

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Wassily Kandinsky Improvisation 31 oil painting


Improvisation 31
1913 National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Painting ID::  2121
Wassily Kandinsky
Improvisation 31
1913 National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky Composition VIII oil painting


Composition VIII
1923 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York
Painting ID::  2122
Wassily Kandinsky
Composition VIII
1923 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky Yellow-Red-Blue oil painting


Yellow-Red-Blue
1925 Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou
Painting ID::  2123
Wassily Kandinsky
Yellow-Red-Blue
1925 Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky Composition VI oil painting


Composition VI
1913 Hermitage, St Petersburg
Painting ID::  2124
Wassily Kandinsky
Composition VI
1913 Hermitage, St Petersburg
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky Riding Couple oil painting


Riding Couple
1906-7 Lenbachhaus, Munich
Painting ID::  2125
Wassily Kandinsky
Riding Couple
1906-7 Lenbachhaus, Munich
   
   
     

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     Wassily Kandinsky
     1866-1944 Wassily Kandinsky Galleries was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose to study law and economics. Quite successful in his profession??he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat??he started painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. In 1896 he settled in Munich and studied first in the private school of Anton Azbe and then at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He went back to Moscow in 1914 after World War I started. He was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Moscow and returned to Germany in 1921. There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France where he lived the rest of his life, and became a French citizen in 1939. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944.

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