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 Improvisation 31 oil


Improvisation 31
Painting ID::  2121 		Improvisation 31
1913 National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
1913_ National_Gallery_of_Art,_Washington_DC
   
   
     
Wassily Kandinsky Composition VIII oil


Composition VIII
Painting ID::  2122 		Composition VIII
1923 Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York
1923_ Solomon_R_Guggenheim_Museum,_New_York
   
   
     
Wassily Kandinsky Yellow-Red-Blue oil


Yellow-Red-Blue
Painting ID::  2123 		Yellow-Red-Blue
1925 Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou
   
   
     
Wassily Kandinsky Composition VI oil


Composition VI
Painting ID::  2124 		Composition VI
1913 Hermitage, St Petersburg
1913_ Hermitage,_St_Petersburg
   
   
     
Wassily Kandinsky Riding Couple oil


Riding Couple
Painting ID::  2125 		Riding Couple
1906-7 Lenbachhaus, Munich
1906-7_Lenbachhaus,_Munich
   
   
     
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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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