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Vassily Kandinsky
Russian-born French Expressionist Painter , 1866-1944
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.
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Composition
mk65
Oil on canvas
37x55"
Painting ID:: 29375
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Composition
mk65
Oil on canvas
37x55"
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Study for composition VII
MK169
1913
78x99.5cm
Painting ID:: 42811
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Study_for_composition_VII
MK169
1913
78x99.5cm
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Study for composition fell
MK169
1913 Cloth
78x99.5cm
Painting ID:: 42812
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Study_for_composition_fell
MK169
1913 Cloth
78x99.5cm
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Red Church
mk193
1901
Oil on plywood
28x19.2cm
Painting ID:: 49165
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Red_Church
mk193
1901
Oil on plywood
28x19.2cm
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Murnau with Church
mk193
1910
Oil and watercolor on cardboard
64.9x50.2cm
Painting ID:: 49166
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Murnau_with_Church
mk193
1910
Oil and watercolor on cardboard
64.9x50.2cm
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Vassily_Kandinsky
Russian-born French Expressionist Painter , 1866-1944
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.
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