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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:: 51630
Fekete Vonasok I
mk220
1913
Olaj,vaszon
129.4x131.1cm
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Painting ID:: 51631
Kompozicio VII
mk220
1913
Olaj,vaszon
200x300cm
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Painting ID:: 51632
Apro oromok
mk220
1913
Olaj,vaszon
109.8x119.7cm
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Painting ID:: 51633
Moszkva,Zubov ter
mk220
1916
Olaj,Karton
34.4x37.7cm
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Painting ID:: 51634
Elemzo Rajz a Kompozicio Vii-hez
mk220
1913
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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: | Friedrich Herlin | e. j. f. bendemann | Hans Leonhard Schaeufelein | Agustin Esteve | Ivan Ivarson |
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