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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:: 56615
drommen
mk248 djur var ett buvudmotiv i marcs fargstarka bilder. for bonom representerade djuren den oskuld ocb enbet med naturen som manniskan forlorat,ocb ban var overtygad om att konsten kunde bygga an bro mellen den verkliga ocb spiritualistiska tillvaron. marv dog 1916 i slaget vid verdun, ett av bans sista verk, stridande former, ror sig under inflytande fran kandinsky mot abstraktion. de bada konstnarerna samarbetade i blaue reiters agenda ocb utstallningar 1911 ocb 1912. gruppens uttalade onskan var att soka sig bortom det for ogat synliga.
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Painting ID:: 56616
impression 5
mk248 kandinskys stil baserades pa icke foretallande egenskaper bos form ocb farg. dem anvande ban for att uttrycka minnen, kanslor ocb forestallningar.
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Painting ID:: 57050
composition vlll
mk247
1923,oil on canvas,55x79 in,140x201 cm,guggenheim museum,new york,ny,usa
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Painting ID:: 64148
the blue rider
1903
oil on canvas, 21x25, 55x65
private collection, switzerland
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Painting ID:: 64149
holland-beach chairs.
1904
oil on canvasboard, 9x12,24x32.6cm
städtische galerie im lenbachhaus, munich
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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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