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


Church in Marnau
Painting ID::  2112 		Church in Marnau
1910 Lenbachhaus, Munich
1910_ Lenbachhaus,_Munich
   
   
     
Wassily Kandinsky Flood Improvisation oil


Flood Improvisation
Painting ID::  2114 		Flood Improvisation
1913 Lenbachhaus, Munich
1913_ Lenbachhaus,_Munich
   
   
     
Wassily Kandinsky Cossacks oil


Cossacks
Painting ID::  2115 		Cossacks
1910/11 Tate Gallery, London
1910/11_ Tate_Gallery,_London
   
   
     
Wassily Kandinsky Moscow I oil


Moscow I
Painting ID::  2117 		Moscow I
1916 State Tretjakov Gallery, Moscow
1916_ State_Tretjakov_Gallery,_Moscow
   
   
     
Wassily Kandinsky In Gray oil


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