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 the blue mountain oil


the blue mountain
Painting ID::  64150
the blue mountain
1908-9 oil on canvas, 41x38,106x96.6cm solomon r, guggenheim museum, new york. gift of solomon r. guggenhein
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky crinolines oil


crinolines
Painting ID::  64151
crinolines
1909 oil on canvas, 37x50, 96.3x128.5cm the state tretiakov gallery, moscow
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky picture withe an archer oil


picture withe an archer
Painting ID::  64152
picture withe an archer
1909 oil on canvas, 69x57, 175.3x144.8cm gift and bequest of mrs. bertram smith
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky sketch for composition oil


sketch for composition
Painting ID::  64153
sketch for composition
1910 oil on canvas, 38x51, 97.5x131cm solomon r guggenheim museum, new york
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky boat trip oil


boat trip
Painting ID::  64154
boat trip
1910 oil on canvas, 38x41,98x105cm the state tretiakov gallery, moscow
   
   
     

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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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