Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky 16 December [O. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art.
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 He returned to Moscow in 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 There, he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from until the Nazis closed it in He then moved to France, where he lived for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in and producing some of his most prominent art.
He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in Spotted a problem? Let us know. In Tate St Ives. Read full Wikipedia entry. Bauhaus Constructivism Blaue Reiter, Der 1 more art term …. Cossacks Wassily Kandinsky —1. Siebdruck fur den Verlag Sintesi Wassily Kandinsky Swinging Wassily Kandinsky Film and audio.
How To. Exhibition Guide. Inspired by. In the shop Browse the shop.
