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 Church in Marnau oil painting


Church in Marnau
1910 Lenbachhaus, Munich
Painting ID::  2112
Wassily Kandinsky
Church in Marnau
1910 Lenbachhaus, Munich
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky Flood Improvisation oil painting


Flood Improvisation
1913 Lenbachhaus, Munich
Painting ID::  2114
Wassily Kandinsky
Flood Improvisation
1913 Lenbachhaus, Munich
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky Cossacks oil painting


Cossacks
1910/11 Tate Gallery, London
Painting ID::  2115
Wassily Kandinsky
Cossacks
1910/11 Tate Gallery, London
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky Moscow I oil painting


Moscow I
1916 State Tretjakov Gallery, Moscow
Painting ID::  2117
Wassily Kandinsky
Moscow I
1916 State Tretjakov Gallery, Moscow
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky In Gray oil painting


In Gray
1919 Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou
Painting ID::  2119
Wassily Kandinsky
In Gray
1919 Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou
   
   
     

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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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