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Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Vasilyevich Kandinsky (1866-1944), Russsian Василий Васильевич Кандинский, was a Russian painter and graphic artist, who also worked for a large part of his life in Germany and France. Wassily Kandinsky was born and raised in Moscow. He initially trained as a lawyer, but abandoned these ambitions and went to Munich at the age of 30 to study at the city's art academy. He was one of the founders of the artist group Der Blaue Reiter in 1911. In 1914 he returned to Russia and led the reorganisation of Russian art life after the revolution. When the cultural climate changed in 1921, he left his homeland again and returned to Germany. In Germany, Kandinsky was a leading member of the Bauhaus school in Weimar from 1922 until the Nazis closed the school in 1933. After Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933, Wassily Kandinsky left Germany for France, where he settled in the Paris suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine. He remained active there until his death in December 1944. Together with his partner from 1904–1916, the artist Gabriele Münter, Wassily Kandinsky developed a friendship with the Swedish artist couple John Jon-And and Agnes Cleve-Jonand. From 1917–1944, he was married to Nina Kandinsky, née Nikolajewna Andreevskaya (1896–1980). Wassily Kandinsky is usually seen as the foremost representative of abstract art of his time, thanks to the fact that he developed abstract art through his painting and his art theory books, including On the Spiritual in Art (1911). His style can be categorized as abstract expressionism. His early abstract artwork contained hints of recognizable objects and then developed into an almost formal geometry. His painting is characterized by strong, symbolic colors, where the color is freed from the form. Between 1937 and 1941, 14 works by Kandinsky were shown at Nazi traveling exhibition Entartete Kunst.
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