Kandinsky
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| Birth name | Wassily Kandinsky |
| Born | 16 December 1866 Moscow |
| Died | December 13, 1944 (aged 77) Neuilly-sur-Seine |
| Nationality | Russian; French |
| Field | Painting |
| Training | Academy of Fine Arts, Munich |
| Movement | Expressionism; abstract art |
| Works | On White II, Der Blaue Reiter |
Wassily Kandinsky [1] (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist.
He was one of the most important and most famous 20th-century artists. He was a major figure in modern art and painted some of the first modern abstract works.[2] His art changed several times during his life. It was abstract, expressionist and constructivist in turn.
[change] Life
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 a private school, 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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Schilderij Blick auf Murnau mit Kirche, 1920
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Murnau mit Regenbogen on 1992 postage stamp
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Fugue, 1914
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To the Unknown Voice, 1916
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Moscow I, 1916
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Commemorative coin, Russia 1994
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Kandinsky's The Ark displayed outside a museum in Genoa
[change] References
- ↑ Pronounce 'Vassily', but German spelling was chosen by him. (Russian: Василий Кандинский)
- ↑ Manierre Dawson may have been the first: Ploog, Randy J., Myra Bairstow and Ani Boyajian 2011. Manierre Dawson (1887-1969): a catalogue raisonné. The Three Graces in association with Hollis Taggart Galleries, New York.
