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The Russian-born painter Wassily Kandinsky was one of the pioneers of twentieth-century abstract art. He studied law and economics at Moscow University, where he became a lecturer after graduating in In he moved to Munich and began studying art at the painter Anton Ažbé’s academy and Franz von Stuck’s studio. A few years later, in , he was one of the founders of the Phalanx artists’ association. There he met Gabriele Münter, who went on to be his artistic and romantic partner until the outbreak of the First World War. In Kandinsky made the first of several trips around Europe and North Africa with Münter and settled in Munich again in During the following years he divided his time between the Bavarian capital and Murnau, a village in the foothills of the Alps whose landscapes were the subject of many of his paintings and where he developed a keen interest in folk art. From to his painting gradually underwent a profound change based on the expressiveness of colour and forms, and his pursuit of an analogy with music culminated in fully abstract works. 

Meanwhile, in , together with Münter, Alexej von Jawlensky and Marianne von Werefkin, among others, Kandinsky established the New Artists’ Association of Munich [Neue Künstlervereinigung München], considered to be the first association of Munich Expressionists. In , along with Franz Marc and Münter, he founded The Blue Rider [Der Blaue Reiter], which staged its first exhibition at the Thannhauser gallery in Munich at the end of the year, around the time he published his seminal essay Concerning the Spiritual in Art. The first and only issue of The Blue Rider almanac also came out in May , marking a key episode in twentieth-century artistic literature. In it Kandinsky called for an art that did not reflect appearances but the artist’s own inner necessity. 

When the First World War broke out Kandinsky returned to Russia, where he remained until the end of Following the success of the October Revolution in

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Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December [O.S. 4 December]  – 13 December ) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated from Odessa Art School. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession, he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia). Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 

In , Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. He returned to Moscow in 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 There, he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from until the Nazis closed it in He then moved to France, where he lived for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in and producing some of his most prominent art. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in

Russian painter and art theorist (–)

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Wassilyevich and the family name is Kandinsky.

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In , Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. He returned to Moscow in 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 There, he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from until the Nazis closed it in He then moved to France, where he lived for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in and producing some of his most prominent art. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in

Early life

Kandinsky was born in Moscow, the son of Lidia Ticheeva and Vasily Silvestrovich Kandinsky, a tea merchant. One of his great-grandmothers was Princess Gantimurova. Kandinsky learned from a va