Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky[a][b] (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 …

Dec 12, 2025 · Wassily Kandinsky, Russian-born artist, one of the first creators of pure abstraction in modern painting. His forms evolved from fluid and organic to geometric and, finally, to pictographic. …

Kandinsky's works again underwent changes: individual geometrical elements increasingly entered the foreground, his palette was sated with cold color harmonies which, at times, are perceived as a …

One of the pioneers of abstract modern art, Wassily Kandinsky exploited the evocative interrelation between color and form to create an experience that engaged the sight, sound, and emotions.

Kandinsky's groundbreaking contributions, from his early experiments with color and form to his mature compositions of pure abstraction, challenged traditional notions of representation and opened up …

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction …

Kandinsky believed that people should look at the color, form, and language of art which, as the artist's "inner necessity," was a means by which thoughts and emotions could be directly...

Both his text and his painting established Kandinsky as a central actor in the move toward abstraction that was playing out across a network of artists, poets, and musicians in the years immediately …

The creator of the first modern abstract paintings, Wassily Kandinsky was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. In his youth, he studied law and economics at the University of Moscow, and was …

Kandinsky began teaching at the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1922. In 1923 he was given his first solo show in New York by the Société Anonyme, of which he became vice-president.