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Wassily Kandinsky

1866–1944 · Russian Empire

Born: 1866 · Moscow
Died: 1944 · Neuilly-sur-Seine

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Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist, generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art. Born in Moscow, he began painting studies at the age of 30.

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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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Selected registered works by Wassily Kandinsky

Selected from 14 works by Wassily Kandinsky in the Collect24 Registry.

Wassily Kandinsky

Planche III fra mappen Kleine Welten, 1922

Farvelitografi i gult, rødt, blåt og sort

35.5 × 28 cm

SMK – National Gallery of Denmark

C24-489733

Wassily Kandinsky

Planche XI fra mappen Kleine Welten, 1922

Koldnål

29.8 × 26.7 cm

SMK – National Gallery of Denmark

C24-589023

Wassily Kandinsky

Planche IV fra mappen Kleine Welten, 1922

Farvelitografi i gult, grøn, violet (!) og sort

34.4 × 28.9 cm

SMK – National Gallery of Denmark

C24-589009

Wassily Kandinsky

Planche XII fra mappen Kleine Welten, 1922

Koldnål

29.9 × 26.8 cm

SMK – National Gallery of Denmark

C24-589017

Wassily Kandinsky

Planche VII fra mappen Kleine Welten, 1922

Farvelitografi (sandsynligvis efter træsnit) i gult, blåt og sort

36.2 × 28.4 cm

SMK – National Gallery of Denmark

C24-589007

Wassily Kandinsky

Planche X fra mappen Kleine Welten, 1922

Koldnål

30.1 × 26.8 cm

SMK – National Gallery of Denmark

C24-589005

Wassily Kandinsky

Planche VIII fra mappen Kleine Welten, 1922

Træsnit

36.1 × 30.5 cm

SMK – National Gallery of Denmark

C24-489730

Wassily Kandinsky

Planche II fra mappen Kleine Welten, 1922

Farvelitografi i gult, rødt, blåt og sort

35.7 × 27.9 cm

SMK – National Gallery of Denmark

C24-489737

Wassily Kandinsky

Kleine Welten, 1922

Bøttepapir

SMK – National Gallery of Denmark

C24-589011

Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky, Kleine Welten, 1922, 1922

Kleine Welten consists of twelve prints, including six colour lithographs, four etchings (drypoint), and two woodcuts on Japanese paper, accompanied by a title page and a colophon page.

36.4 × 27.8 cm

Gallery Sofie Van de Velde

C24-142493