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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:: 64167
on points
1928
oil on canvas, 55x55, 140x140cm
musee national d art moderne, centre georges pompidou, paris
gift of nina kandinsky
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Painting ID:: 64168
downelopment in brve
1933
oil on canvas, 41x47,101x120.5cm
musee national d art moderne, centre georges pompidou, paris
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Painting ID:: 64169
composition ix
1936
oil on canvas , 44x76, 113.5x195cm
musee national d art moderne, centre georges pompidou, paris
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Painting ID:: 64171
reciprocal accord
1942
oil and ripolin on canvas 44x57, 114x146cm
musee national d art moderne, centre georges pompidou, paris
gift of nina kandinsky
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Painting ID:: 67562
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1910
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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: | George Durrie | Samuel Prout | Adolf Friedrich Erdmann Menzel | Giorgione | William Vincent Cahill |
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