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 on points oil


on points
Painting ID::  64167
on points
1928 oil on canvas, 55x55, 140x140cm musee national d art moderne, centre georges pompidou, paris gift of nina kandinsky
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky downelopment in brve oil


downelopment in brve
Painting ID::  64168
downelopment in brve
1933 oil on canvas, 41x47,101x120.5cm musee national d art moderne, centre georges pompidou, paris
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky composition ix oil


composition ix
Painting ID::  64169
composition ix
1936 oil on canvas , 44x76, 113.5x195cm musee national d art moderne, centre georges pompidou, paris
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky reciprocal accord oil


reciprocal accord
Painting ID::  64171
reciprocal accord
1942 oil and ripolin on canvas 44x57, 114x146cm musee national d art moderne, centre georges pompidou, paris gift of nina kandinsky
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky komposition oil


komposition
Painting ID::  67562
komposition
1910 se
1910 se
   
   
     

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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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