Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky, 1866 to 1944 was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting one of the first purely abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art school. and began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. He settled in Muncih In 1896 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. Kandinsky's creation of abstract work followed a long period of development and maturation of intense thought based on his artistic experiences.
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'Points, detail' by Wassily Kandinsky in 1900's £6.99
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'Several Circles' by Wassily Kandinsky in 1926 £6.99
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'Sky Blue' by Wassily Kandinsky in 1940 £6.99
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'Swinging' by Wassily Kandinsky in 1925 £6.99
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'A Motley Life, detail' by Wassily Kandinsky in 1907 £6.99
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'Bauhaus Exhibition' in 1926 £6.99
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'Cercles dans un cercle, detail' by Wassily Kandinsky in 1923 £6.99
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'Composition VIII' by Wassily Kandinsky in 1923 £6.99
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'Dominant Curve' by Wassily Kandinsky in 1936 £6.99
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'Harmony of silence' by Wassily Kandinsky in 1900's £6.99
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'Impression III (Concert)' by Wassily Kandinsky in 1911 £6.99
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'Improvisation 19' by Wassily Kandinsky in 1911 £6.99
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'Improvisation III' by Wassily Kandinsky in 1909 £6.99
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'In Gray (Im Grau)' by Wassily Kandinsky in 1919 £6.99
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'Red Spot II' by Wassily Kandinsky in 1921 £6.99
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'Romantic Landscape' by Wassily Kandinsky in 1911 £6.99
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'Sketch for Composition II' by Wassily Kandinsky in 1909 £6.99
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'The Blue Rider (With Franc Marc)' by Wassily Kandinsky in 1912 £6.99
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'Yellow Red Blue' by Wassily Kandinsky in 1925 £6.99