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Encyclopedia: Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky (Russian: Василий Кандинский, first name pronounced as [vassi:li]) (December 16 O.S. December 4] 1866 – December 13, 1944) was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract works.

Kandinsky was born in Moscow but spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose law and economics. Although 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.

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How to say "Wassily Kandinsky" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	瓦西里·康定斯基
	(Japanese)	ワシリー・カンディンスキー
	(German)	Wassily Kandinsky
	(Spanish)	Wasily Kandinsky
	(French)	Wassily Kandinsky
	(Italian)	Vasilij Kandinskij

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Der Blaue Reiter

Blaue Reiter Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) was a group of Expressionist artists. It was formed by artists Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc in 1911...

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Blaue Reiter

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Alexej von Jawlensky

to Munich, where he met Wassily Kandinsky, another Russian artist. He died in Wiesbaden, Germany, on...

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Abstract art

(1875) is often seen as a major move towards abstraction. Later artists such as Wassily Kandinsky... character. Art should display the spiritual forces behind the visual world. Wassily Kandinsky and... abstract artists. The blurred, dynamic lines and colors used by Kandinsky developed into Abstract...

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Johannes Itten

Bill and Bridget Riley, and the expressionist works of Wassily Kandinsky. Books The Art of Color...

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Degenerate art

included: Ernst Barlach Max Beckmann Marc Chagall Otto Dix Max Ernst Otto Griebel George Grosz Wassily Kandinsky Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Paul Klee Emil Nolde Franz Marc Edvard Munch Max Pechstein Karl Schmidt...

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Dessau

years, among them Walter Gropius, Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. In 1932 the Nazis forced the closure...

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Franz Marc

1910. In 1911 he formed the Blaue Reiter artist circle with Macke, Wassily Kandinsky, and other...

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Modern art

Vlaminck and others Die Brücke - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Der Blaue Reiter - Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc..., Wassily Kandinsky, El Lissitzky, Kasimir Malevich, Alexander Rochenko, Vladimir Tatlin De Stijl... Miró Constructivism - Naum Gabo, László Moholy-Nagy Bauhaus - Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee...

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Expressionism

: Wassily Kandinsky Oskar Kokoschka Franz Marc Edvard Munch Emil Nolde Egon Schiele Chaim Soutine There...

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