Wassily Kandinsky

(1866-1944)

Was born in Moscow but trained in Munich, after abandoning a legal career. Wassily Kandinsky painted his first purely abstract work in 1910 and was therefore one of the founders of pure abstract painting. In 1911 Wassily Kandinsky was one of the founders of the Blaue Reiter group. He returned to Russia 1914-21 and then went back to Germany and taught at the Bauhaus from 1922, again coming into contact with Klee. In 1933 Wassily Kandinsky went to France.

Wassily Kandinsky’s famous oil paintings include:

• Riding Couple
• The Blue Mountain
• Picture with an Archer
• Saint George II
• Composition IV
• Black Lines I
• Twilight
• Yellow-Red-Blue
• Dominant Curve