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Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated from Odessa Art School. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession, he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia). Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) 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. Following the Russian Revolution, Kandinsky "became an insider in the cultural administration of Anatoly Lunacharsky" and helped establish the Museum of the Culture of Painting. However, by then, "his spiritual outlook... was foreign to the argumentative materialism of Soviet society" and

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Artist Wassily Kandinsky

"Born in Moscow in 4 December 1866, Wassily Kandinsky was one of the most important pioneers of abstract art. He was educated at the University of Moscow, where he studied economics and law. In 1896 he declined the offer of Professorship of Law at the University of Dorpat and instead embarked on a completely different career path by moving to Munich to study art. It took Kandinsky 10 years to find his bearings. His first works are representational, utilising impressions from his travels. It was after 1908 that he broke free of traditional constraints and, increasingly eliminating the representational elements from his work he produced, in 1910, Europe’s first abstract painting, which was a completely non-representational watercolour. The first peak in Kandinsky’s career is marked by the 7 large The advent of Nazism in 1933 drove Kandinsky out of Germany to Paris, where he spent his remaining years and where he eventually became a French citizen. It was here that he attained his third and last peak, where his Russian and Mongolian side fo

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List of paintings by Wassily Kandinsky

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Title Location Made from
Material
H x W in cm
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1898
Odessa, PortTretyakov Gallery, Moscow Oil paint on canvas
65 x 45
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1900
Kochel – Waterfall ILenbachhaus, Munich 32.5 x 23.5
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1901
Schwabing, Winter SunMusée National d'Art Moderne, Paris Oil paint on canvas board
23.8 x 32.3
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1901
Munich – The IsarLenbachhaus, Munich 32.5 x 23.6
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1901
Clear AirMusée National d'Art Moderne, Paris Oil and tempera on canvas
34 x 52.3
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1901
Sketch for Akhtyrka – FallLenbachhaus, Munich Oil paint on canvas
23.6 x 32.7
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1901
Munich English GardenLenbachhaus, Munich 23.7 x 32.3
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1901 to 1902
Schwabing – NikolaiplatzLenbachhaus, Munich 23.8 x 32.2
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1901 to 1902
MunichSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York 23.8 x 32.1
Oil paint on card board
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1901 to 1903
PoplarsMusée National d'Art Moderne, Paris 23.5 x 32.8
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