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 Upward oil


Upward
Painting ID::  34701
Upward
mk96 1929 70x49cm
mk96 1929 70x49cm
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky Composition X oil


Composition X
Painting ID::  34702
Composition X
mk96 1938-1939 130x195cm
mk96 1938-1939 130x195cm
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky Arab Cemetery oil


Arab Cemetery
Painting ID::  40116
Arab Cemetery
mk155 1909 Oil on card 71.5x98cm
mk155 1909 Oil_on_card 71.5x98cm
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky Improvisation Vi oil


Improvisation Vi
Painting ID::  40117
Improvisation Vi
mk155 1909-1910 Oil and gouache on canvas 107.5x96cm
mk155 1909-1910 Oil_and_gouache_on_canvas 107.5x96cm
   
   
     

Wassily Kandinsky Fragment for Composition IV oil


Fragment for Composition IV
Painting ID::  50890
Fragment for Composition IV
mk216 The First abstract picture is traditionally a water-colour of 1910 by the Russian artist Kandinsky
   
   
     

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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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