Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow on December 4, 1866, into a wealthy and cultured family. After studying law and economics at the University of Moscow, which he pursued through to his thesis, he renounced an academic career in 1895 to devote himself to painting, turning down a professorship that had been offered to him. He then settled in Munich where he learned painting and created the Phalanx association, meeting Gabriele Münter who would be his companion until 1914. From 1901 to 1911, he successively presided over several artistic groups including the Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter), which he founded in 1911 with Franz Marc, publishing the Blue Rider Almanac in 1912. Considered one of the pioneers of abstract art in the 1910s, he published his major essay Concerning the Spiritual in Art in 1911. Returning to Russia during the war, he taught at the University of Moscow before rejoining Germany in 1921 where he joined the Bauhaus until 1933. Stripped of his German nationality, he then settled in Paris as a stateless person, obtaining French citizenship in 1939. He continued his artistic research in Neuilly-sur-Seine until his death on December 13, 1944.

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