* December 4, 1866 Moscow - † December 13, 1944

biography

Kandinsky was born on December 4, 1866 in Moscow. After successfully studying law and economics in Moscow, he went to Munich in 1896 to devote himself to painting at the Azbé School. In 1900 he entered Franz von Stuck's class and the following year founded the artist group "Phalanx", to which his future partner Gabriele Münter also belonged. In the years 1904-1908, Kandinsky traveled through Europe and North Africa and began to make contact with the Fauves, whose expressive colors fascinated him. In 1908, Kandinsky moved with Gabriele Münter to Murnau, which is south of Munich. Many landscape pictures of the area were created here, but also a theoretical work “On the Spiritual in Art”. In 1911, with Klee, Jawlensky, Münter, Macke and Marc, Kandinsky formed the artists' community "The Blue Rider", which existed until 1914. With the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, Kandinsky returned to Moscow, where from 1918 he took up professorships and founded museums and academies. In 1921, married to Nina Andrejewskaja, much to Münter's annoyance, he returned to Germany, where he took part in the Weimar Bauhaus in 1922 and later also the Dessau Bauhaus. In 1928 he accepted German citizenship, but emigrated to Neuilly-sur-Seine in France in 1933. Shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, he accepted French citizenship in 1939 and died on December 13, 1944 in Neuilly-sur-Seine near Paris.

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Kandinsky, Wassily - Church in Murnau - art print after the original from 1910