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 Bedroom in Ainmillerstrasse (mk12) oil


Bedroom in Ainmillerstrasse (mk12)
Painting ID::  22163 		Bedroom in Ainmillerstrasse (mk12)
1909 Schlafzimmer in der Ainmillerstrape Oil on canvas,48.5 x 69.5 cm Munich,Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhau
   
   
     
Wassily Kandinsky Moonlit Night (mk19) oil


Moonlit Night (mk19)
Painting ID::  22365 		Moonlit Night (mk19)
1907 Water-coloured wood engraving,20.8 x 18.6 cm Tretiakov Gallery,Moscow
   
   
     
Wassily Kandinsky George and the Dragon (mk19) oil


George and the Dragon (mk19)
Painting ID::  22366 		George and the Dragon (mk19)
Undated Oil on cardboard,61.4 x 91 cm Tretiakov Gallery,Moscow
   
   
     
Wassily Kandinsky Winter oil


Winter
Painting ID::  30896 		Winter
mk68 Oil on canvas Saint Petersburg State Hermitage Museum 1909 Germany
   
   
     
Wassily Kandinsky Landscape oil


Landscape
Painting ID::  30901 		Landscape
mk68 Oil on canvas Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum 1913 Russia
   
   
     
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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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