Wassily Kandinsky

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born

December 04, 1866 in Moscow, Russian Federation

died

December 13, 1944

gender

male

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Arts & Photography

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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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Average rating: 3.80 · 3,096 ratings · 86 reviews · 55 distinct works

	Concerning the Spiritual in Art 3.78 avg rating — 2,775 ratings — published 1379 — 40 editions	My rating:
	Point and Line to Plane by Wassily Kandinsky, Hilla Rebay (Designed by) 3.87 avg rating — 157 ratings — published 1972 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Kandinsky: Complete Writings On Art by Wassily Kandinsky, Kenneth C. Lindsay, Peter Vergo (Editor) 4.09 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1980 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Sounds by Wassily Kandinsky, Elizabeth R. Napier (Translator) 3.82 avg rating — 34 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Blaue Reiter Almanac 4.00 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2005 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Kandinsky: [The Pioneer Of Abstract Art His Life In Paintings] 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings	My rating:
	Arnold Schoenberg-Wassily Kandinsky: Letters, Pictures and Documents 4.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1984	My rating:
	Wassily Kandinsky 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2004	My rating:
	Aokishi by Wassily Kandinsky, フランツ・マルク (編さん), 岡田素之 (翻訳) 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Il cavaliere azzurro by Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Giuseppina Gozzini Calzecchi Onesti (Translator) 3.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1988	My rating:

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“Colour is a power which directly influences the soul.”
― Wassily Kandinsky, Concerning the Spiritual in Art

tags: abstraction , art , paintings , science

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“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

tags: experience , learning , spirituality

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

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