Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Île-de-France), France † 1944

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting one of the first recog...

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting one of the first recognised purely abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art school. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession—he was offered a professorship at the University of Dorpat—Kandinsky began painting studies at the age of 30. In 1896 Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. He returned to Moscow in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I. Kandinsky was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Communist 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 for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in 1939 and producing some of his most prominent art. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944. His grandson was musicology professor and writer Aleksey Ivanovich Kandinsky, whose career was both focused on and centered in Russia.

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Wassily Kandinsky
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