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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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improviseation 27,garden of lov
1912
oil on canvas, 47x55, 120x140cm the metropolitan museum of art, new york
the alfred stieglitz collection
Painting ID:: 64161
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improviseation_27,garden_of_lov
1912
oil on canvas, 47x55, 120x140cm the metropolitan museum of art, new york
the alfred stieglitz collection
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painting with black arch
1912
oil on canvas 74x78,189x198
musee national d ,art moderne, centre georges pompidifou, paris
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t of nina kandinsky
Painting ID:: 64162
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painting_with_black_arch
1912
oil on canvas 74x78,189x198
musee national d ,art moderne, centre georges pompidifou, paris
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t of nina kandinsky
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paintiong with black arch
1912
oil on canvas, 74x78, 189x198cm
musee national d art moderne, centre georges pompidou, paris
gift´of nina kandinsky
Painting ID:: 64163
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paintiong_with_black_arch
1912
oil on canvas, 74x78, 189x198cm
musee national d art moderne, centre georges pompidou, paris
gift´of nina kandinsky
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paintiong on light ground
1916
oil on canvas, 39x30, 100x78
musee national d art moderne, centre georges pompidou, paris
gift of nina kandinsky
Painting ID:: 64164
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paintiong_on_light_ground
1916
oil on canvas, 39x30, 100x78
musee national d art moderne, centre georges pompidou, paris
gift of nina kandinsky
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Red oval
Oil on canvas, 28x28 (71,5x71,2cm)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Painting ID:: 64166
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Red_oval
Oil on canvas, 28x28 (71,5x71,2cm)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
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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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