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 Untitled (mk09) oil


Untitled (mk09)
Painting ID::  21621 		Untitled (mk09)
1910(1913) Pencil,Watercolour and ink on paper,49.6 x 64.8 cm Paris,Musee National d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou
   
   
     
Wassily Kandinsky Study for Inprovisation 8 (mk09) oil


Study for Inprovisation 8 (mk09)
Painting ID::  21664 		Study for Inprovisation 8 (mk09)
1910 Oil on cardboard on canvas 98 x 70 cm Winterthur,Kunstmuseum
   
   
     
Wassily Kandinsky Improvisation Gorge (mk09) oil


Improvisation Gorge (mk09)
Painting ID::  21665 		Improvisation Gorge (mk09)
1914 Oil on canvas,110 x 110 cm Munich,Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus
   
   
     
Wassily Kandinsky Sky-Blue (mk09) oil


Sky-Blue (mk09)
Painting ID::  21666 		Sky-Blue (mk09)
1940 Oil on canvas,100 x 73 cm Paris,Musee National d'Art Moderne,Centre Georges Pompidou
   
   
     
Wassily Kandinsky The Arrow (La Fleche) (mk09) oil


The Arrow (La Fleche) (mk09)
Painting ID::  21667 		The Arrow (La Fleche) (mk09)
1943 Oil on cardbard 42 x 58 cm Basle,Offentliche Kunstsammlung Basel,Kunstmuseum
   
   
     
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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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