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.
1908-9
oil on canvas, 41x38,106x96.6cm
solomon r, guggenheim museum, new york.
gift of solomon r. guggenhein
1908-9
oil on canvas, 41x38,106x96.6cm
solomon r, guggenheim museum, new york.
gift of solomon r. guggenhein
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picture withe an archer
picture withe an archer
Painting ID:: 64152
1909
oil on canvas, 69x57, 175.3x144.8cm
gift and bequest of mrs. bertram smith
1909
oil on canvas, 69x57, 175.3x144.8cm
gift and bequest of mrs. bertram smith
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sketch for composition
sketch for composition
Painting ID:: 64153
1910
oil on canvas, 38x51, 97.5x131cm
solomon r guggenheim museum, new york
1910
oil on canvas, 38x51, 97.5x131cm
solomon r guggenheim museum, new york
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.