Wassily Kandinsky





Wassily Kandinsky

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born
December 04, 1866 in Moscow, Russian Federation

died
December 13, 1944

gender
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Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter, and Art theorist. He is credited with painting the first modern abstract works.
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 the private school of Anton Ažbe and 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. T...more


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Concerning the Spiritual in...
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The Blaue Reiter Almanac
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“Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.”
Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art

“Those [things] that we encounter for the first time immediately have a spiritual effect upon us. A child, for whom every object is new, experiences the world in this way: it sees light, is attracted by it, wants to grasp it, burns its finger in the process, and thus learns fear and respect for the flame. ”
Wassily Kandinsky

“The artist must train not only his eye but also his soul.”
Wassily Kandinsky