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Wassily Vasilievich Kandinsky

Wassily Vasilievich Kandinsky (1866 - 1944) was active/lived in Russian Federation, France.  Wassily Kandinsky is known for Constructivist sculpture, abstract and non-objective painting.

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At the relatively advanced age of nearly thirty, Vasily Vasilievich Kandinsky abandoned a burgeoning career as a teacher of law in Moscow to take up studies as a painter. In 1896 he moved to Munich to study, enrolling in the private art academy established by the Slovenian painter Anton Ažbe, where he joined a number of other Russian artists, including Marianne von Werefkin and Alexej Jawlensky. Having failed the entrance examination to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1898, Kandinsky was accepted the following year and there studied with Franz von Stuck, alongside Paul Klee.

By 1900 he was exhibiting his work at the Moscow Artist’s Association, and the following year was a founder member of an artist’s association known as Phalanx, exhibiting with the group as well as teaching at the associated art school until the group was dissolved in 1904. In 1902 he met the painter Gabriele Münter, a Phalanx student, who became his mistress and companion, and the same year he exhibit   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 9106 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Wassily Vasilievich Kandinsky

   Wassily Vasilievich Kandinsky  Born:  1866 - Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France
Died:   1944 - Neuilly-Sur-Seine, France
Known for:  Constructivist sculpture, abstract and non-objective painting
Name variants:  Vasilij Kandinskij

At the relatively advanced age of nearly thirty, Vasily Vasilievich Kandinsky abandoned a burgeoning career as a teacher of law in Moscow to take up studies as a painter. In 1896 he moved to Munich to study, enrolling in the private art academy established by the Slovenian painter Anton Ažbe, where he joined a number of other Russian artists, including Marianne von Werefkin and Alexej Jawlensky. Having failed the entrance examination to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in 1898, Kandinsky was accepted the following year and there studied with Franz von Stuck, alongside Paul Klee.

By 1900 he was exhibiting his work at the Moscow Artist’s Association, and the following year was a founder member of an artist’s association known as Pha  ...  Displaying 750 of 9106 characters.

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