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 improviseation 27,garden of lov oil


improviseation 27,garden of lov
Painting ID::  64161 		improviseation 27,garden of lov
1912 oil on canvas, 47x55, 120x140cm the metropolitan museum of art, new york the alfred stieglitz collection
   
   
     
Wassily Kandinsky painting with black arch oil


painting with black arch
Painting ID::  64162 		painting with black arch
1912 oil on canvas 74x78,189x198 musee national d ,art moderne, centre georges pompidifou, paris g t of nina kandinsky
   
   
     
Wassily Kandinsky paintiong with black arch oil


paintiong with black arch
Painting ID::  64163 		paintiong with black arch
1912 oil on canvas, 74x78, 189x198cm musee national d art moderne, centre georges pompidou, paris gift´of nina kandinsky
   
   
     
Wassily Kandinsky paintiong on light ground oil


paintiong on light ground
Painting ID::  64164 		paintiong on light ground
1916 oil on canvas, 39x30, 100x78 musee national d art moderne, centre georges pompidou, paris gift of nina kandinsky
   
   
     
Wassily Kandinsky Red oval oil


Red oval
Painting ID::  64166 		Red oval
Oil on canvas, 28x28 (71,5x71,2cm) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
   
   
     
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     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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