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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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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
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Painting ID:: 22365
Moonlit Night (mk19)
1907
Water-coloured wood engraving,20.8 x 18.6 cm
Tretiakov Gallery,Moscow
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Painting ID:: 22366
George and the Dragon (mk19)
Undated Oil on cardboard,61.4 x 91 cm
Tretiakov Gallery,Moscow
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Painting ID:: 30896
Winter
mk68
Oil on canvas
Saint Petersburg
State Hermitage Museum
1909
Germany
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Painting ID:: 30901
Landscape
mk68
Oil on canvas
Saint Petersburg,
State Hermitage Museum
1913
Russia
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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.
. Related Artists to Wassily Kandinsky: | Quirijn van Brekelenkam | Johan Thorn Prikker | hector berlioz | George Washington Lambert | Anton Raffael Mengs |
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