"Kandinsky" redirects here. For other uses, see Kandinsky (disambiguation).
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Wassilyevich and the family name is Kandinsky.
Wassily Kandinsky
Kandinsky by Adolf Elnain, c. 1925
Born
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky
16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866
Moscow, Russian Empire
Died
13 December 1944(1944-12-13) (aged 77)
Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Nationality
Russian, later French
Education
Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
Known for
Painting
Notable work
On White II, Der Blaue Reiter
Movement
Expressionism; abstract art
Signature
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky[a] (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"[1] and helped establish the Museum of the Culture of Painting.[2] However, by then "his spiritual outlook... was foreign to the argumentative materialism of Soviet society",[3] and opportunities beckoned in Germany, to which he returned in 1920. 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 in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944, three days before his 78th birthday.
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^Lindsay, Kenneth; Vergo, Peter (1994). Kandinsky: Complete Writings on Art. New York: Da Capo Press. ISBN 9780306805707.
^Lindsay, Kenneth; Vergo, Peter (1994). Kandinsky: Complete Writings on Art. New York: Da Capo Press.
^Lindsay, Kenneth and Peter Vergo. "Introduction". Kandinsky: Complete Writings on Art. New York: Da Capo Press, 1994.
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