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 Arrow oil


The Arrow
Painting ID::  34065
The Arrow
mk87 1943 Oil on cardboard 42x58cm Basle,Offentliche Kunstsammlung Basel,Kunstmuseum
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky Komposition VI oil


Komposition VI
Painting ID::  34329
Komposition VI
mk1913 194x294cm Leningrad, Ermitage
mk1913 194x294cm Leningrad, Ermitage
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky Villa R oil


Villa R
Painting ID::  34330
Villa R
mk92 1919 26.5x22cm Basel, Kunstmuseum
mk92 1919 26.5x22cm Basel, Kunstmuseum
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky In Grey oil


In Grey
Painting ID::  34699
In Grey
mk96 1919 129x176cm
mk96 1919 129x176cm
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky Shaking oil


Shaking
Painting ID::  34700
Shaking
mk96 1925 70x50cm
mk96 1925 70x50cm
   
   
     

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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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