Wassily Kandinsky

Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Канди́нский, Romanized: Vasiliy Vasilyevich Kandinskiy, December 16, 1866 – December 13, 1944) was a Russian-born painter and art theorist. Julian calendar1866Year12moon4day，Kandinsky was born in Moscow, Russia，Spending my childhood in Odessa。 After entering Moscow State University, he studied law and economics. Studied painting (life drawing, drawing and anatomy) in Munich in 1896, returning to Moscow in 1918 after the Russian Revolution. Because avant-garde art was in conflict with official realist art, he went to Germany in 1921 and began teaching at the Bauhaus in 1922. He became a German citizen in 1928 until the Bauhaus was closed down by the Nazi German government in 1933. After that, he settled in France and became a French citizen in 1939. France was occupied by Nazi Germany in 1940. Kandinsky did not choose to settle in the United States. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944. Along with the likes of Piet Mondrian and Malevich, Kandinsky is considered a pioneer of abstract art. He also co-founded the short-lived but influential art collective The Blue Rider.Kandinsky painting sold for nearly $15 million。 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is home to one of the largest collections of Kandinsky's works. Kandinsky had synesthesia (mixed perception) and he could hear colors very clearly. This effect had a major influence on his art.He even named his paintings“impromptu”and“structure”，As if they were not paintings but musical works。