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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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Landscape
mk68
1913
Painting ID:: 30956
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Landscape
mk68
1913
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Untitled
mk87
1910
Pencil watercolour and ink on paper
49.6x64.8cm
Paris,Musee National d'Art Moderne,Centre Georges Pompidou
Painting ID:: 34045
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Untitled
mk87
1910
Pencil watercolour and ink on paper
49.6x64.8cm
Paris,Musee National d'Art Moderne,Centre Georges Pompidou
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Study for Improvisation 8
mk87
1910
Oil on cardboard on canvas
98x70cm
Winterthur,Kunstmuseum
Painting ID:: 34062
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Study_for_Improvisation_8
mk87
1910
Oil on cardboard on canvas
98x70cm
Winterthur,Kunstmuseum
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Improvisation Gorge
mk87
1914
Oil on canvas
110x110cm
Munich,Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus
Painting ID:: 34063
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Improvisation_Gorge
mk87
1914
Oil on canvas
110x110cm
Munich,Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus
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Sky Blue
mk87
1940
Oil on canvas
100x73cm
Paris,Musee National d'Art Moderne,Centru Georges Pompidou
Painting ID:: 34064
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Sky_Blue
mk87
1940
Oil on canvas
100x73cm
Paris,Musee National d'Art Moderne,Centru Georges Pompidou
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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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