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Wassily Kandinsky

Also known as Wassily Wassiljewitsch Kandinsky, Vasili Vasilevich Kandinsky, Vasilii Vasilevich Kandinskii, Vasily Vasil'yevich Kandinsky, Vasilij Kandinski, Vasilij Vasil'evic Kandinskij, Vasily Kandinsky, Vasilij Kandinskij

avant-garde painter of Russian origin (1866-1944)

AI overview

Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter (1866-1944) who became a pioneer of abstract art by moving away from realistic representation toward pure color and form. His innovative approach to painting had a major influence on modern art and helped establish abstraction as a legitimate and important artistic movement.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 4 décembre 1866 Moscou, Russie
Died: 13 décembre 1944 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine, France
Works: 229

Top works

Cours du Bauhaus
Kandinsky in Russland und am Bauhaus 1915-1933
Ṿasili Ḳandinsḳi, 1866-1944
Kandinsky, 1900-1910
Essays über Kunst und Kunstler

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Listeners: 41
Total plays: 168

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky ( /kænˈdɪnski/; Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Канди́нский, Vasilij Vasil'evič Kandinskij, Russian pronunciation: [vaˈsʲilʲɪj kɐnˈdʲinskʲɪj]; 16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter, and art theorist. He is credited with painting of the first purely 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. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Wassily+Kandinsky">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Probability Inequalities for Sums of Bounded Random Variables
· 1963 · cited 5,137x
Quantitative Input and Output Relations in the Economic Systems of the United States
· 1936 · cited 2,168x
Environmental Repercussions and the Economic Structure: An Input-Output Approach
· 1970 · cited 1,747x
A Class of Statistics with Asymptotically Normal Distribution
· 1948 · cited 1,708x
A Non-Parametric Test of Independence
· 1948 · cited 415x

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Quotes

“Frankly, I think there is something wrong with Jawlensky's dots [in his paintings, then]. Anybody can pick up that style if they want to.”
“The impressions we receive, which often appear merely chaotic, consist of three elements; the impression of the color of the object, its form, and of its combined color and form, i.e., of the object itself. At this point the individuality of the artist comes to the front and disposes, as he wills, these three elements. It is clear, therefore, that the choice of object (i.e., of one of the elements in the harmony of form) must be decided only by a corresponding vibration in the human soul..”
“Mystery, speaking through mysteries. Isn't that meaning? Isn't that the conscious or unconsciousnes purpose of the compulsive urge to create?”
“Opposites and contradictions, that is our harmony.”
“[ Schoenberg's ] music leads us into a realm where musical experience is a matter not of the ear but of the soul alone, and at this point the music of the future begins.”
“In your [ composer Schönberg's ] works, you have realized what I, albeit in uncertain form, have so greatly longed for in music. The independent progress through their own destinies, the independent life of the individual voices in your compositions, is exactly what I am trying to find in my painting.”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Vasily
Gender: male
Citizenship: Germany
Place of birth: Moscow
Place of death: Neuilly-sur-Seine
Spouse: Gabriele Münter
Occupation: draftsperson
Position held: director
Employer: Bauhaus
Languages spoken: German
Religion: Eastern Orthodoxy
Notable work: Composition VII
Participant in: documenta 8
Field of work: painting
Genre: landscape painting
Movement: Bauhaus
Official website: www.wassilykandinsky.net
Image: Wassily kandinsky.jpg
Work location: Tunis
Residence: Munich

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name in native language: Василий Васильевич Кандинский
Commons category: Wassily Kandinsky
date of birth: 1866-11-22
date of death: 1944-12-14
topic's main category: Category:Wassily Kandinsky
Commons gallery: Wassily Kandinski
Commons Creator page: Wassily Kandinsky
influenced by: Rudolf Steiner
member of: Abstraction-Création
ethnic group: Russians
cause of death: stroke
has works in the collection: National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design
archives at: Lenbachhaus
writing language: German
significant person: Paul Klee
P8168: Denver
unmarried partner: Gabriele Münter
manner of death: natural causes

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Works in European collections

33 objects attributed to Wassily Kandinsky, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist active in Germany during the late Belle Époque and Interwar eras. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art. Born in Moscow, he began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.

In 1896, Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. During this time, he was first the teacher and then the partner of German artist Gabriele Münter. He returned to Moscow in 1914 after the outbreak of World War I. Following the Russian Revolution, Kandinsky "became an insider in the cultural administration of Anatoly Lunacharsky" and helped establish the Museum of the Culture of Painting. However, by then, "his spiritual outlook... was foreign to the argumentative materialism of Soviet society" and opportunities beckoned in Germany, to which he returned in 1920. There, he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France, where he lived for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in 1939 and producing some of his most prominent art. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944.

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