Wassily Kandinsky

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Wassily Kandinsky was a pioneering Russian painter and art theorist widely regarded as one of the founders of abstract art and a major influence on modernist painting.

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instanceOf abstract artist
art theorist
human
painter
artSeries Compositions
Impressions
Improvisations
birthCountry Russian Empire
birthDate 1866-12-16
birthPlace Moscow
citizenship France
Germany
Russian Empire
coFounded Der Blaue Reiter
coFounderWith Franz Marc
colorTheory association of colors with sounds and emotions
deathCountry France
deathDate 1944-12-13
deathPlace Neuilly-sur-Seine
educatedAt Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Munich
surface form: Academy of Fine Arts, Munich

Moscow State University
familyName Wassily Kandinsky self-linksurface differs
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fieldOfWork art theory
painting
formerSpouse Anja Tschimiakin
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genre abstract painting
lyrical abstraction
givenName Wassily
influenced Jackson Pollock
Paul Klee
Piet Mondrian
abstract expressionism
modern art
influencedBy Claude Monet
Impressionism
Richard Wagner
Theosophy
knownFor founding abstract art
pioneering non-representational painting
language German
Russian
memberOf Der Blaue Reiter
movement Der Blaue Reiter
Expressionism
Modernism
abstract art
notableIdea non-objective painting
spiritual in art
notableWork Black and Violet
Composition IV
Composition VII
Composition VIII
Composition X
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Improvisation 28 (Second Version)
surface form: Improvisation 28

On White II
Point and Line to Plane
Several Circles
Color Study: Squares with Concentric Circles
surface form: Squares with Concentric Circles

Yellow‑Red‑Blue
surface form: Yellow-Red-Blue
occupation art theorist
painter
printmaker
teacher
religion Russian Orthodox Church
residence Dessau
Moscow
Munich
Paris
Weimar
spouse Nina Kandinsky
studiedField economics
law
taughtAt Bauhaus
Bauhaus Dessau building
surface form: Bauhaus Dessau

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Paul Klee influencedBy Wassily Kandinsky
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Improvisation 31 (Sea Battle) creator Wassily Kandinsky
Improvisation 26 (Rowing) creator Wassily Kandinsky
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Improvisation 33 (Orient I) creator Wassily Kandinsky
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Composition III artist Wassily Kandinsky
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Several Circles creator Wassily Kandinsky
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