BIOGRAPHY Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky was born on December 4, 1866 in Moscow in the family of a tea merchant.
In 1871, the family of the future artist moved to Odessa.
There, Kandinsky also graduates from a classical gymnasium, and also receives an art and music education.
In 1886, he entered the Moscow University at the Faculty of Law, graduating six years later, simultaneously with his marriage to his cousin Anna Shemyakina.
In 1893, he defended his dissertation on the topic "On the legality of labor wages", three years later he moved to Munich, studied art at the Aschbe Art School.
At the courses of Franz von Stuck, Kandinsky meets the Swiss Paul Klee, a future friend and colleague.
1901 the foundation of the creative union "Phalanx", acquaintance with the German artist Gabriela Munter, the first joint exhibitions…
September 1904 divorce from his wife, further rapprochement with Gabriela…
In 1911, Kandinsky joined a new, more powerful, creative association "The Blue Rider", founded by Franz Mark.
1910-11 in fact, the discovery of abstractionism ("The first abstract watercolor" 1910-13, "Composition 5", 1911, "Improvisation 20", 1911)
1914 return to Russia (Moscow), the end of relations with Munter.
1917 marriage to Nina Andreevskaya, the daughter of a general.
With the advent of Soviet power, Kandinsky occupies high positions in the People's Commissariat of Education, participates in the opening of new museums in the province, donating his paintings to them… the first (but not the last) the peak of creativity - paintings "Blue ridge", 1917, "Twilight", 1917, "Southern", 1917, "Twilight", 1917, "Picture with dots", 1919, "In gray", 1919…
In December 1921, Kandinsky returned to Germany, participated in the activities of the "Bauhaus".
Three years later, he joined the" Blue Four " with Paul Klee, Lionel Feininger and Alexey Yavlensky.
In 1937, Kandinsky's paintings, together with other avant garde artists, were shown at the exhibition "Degenerate Art"inspired by Hitler.
Difficult times are beginning.
Kandinsky takes French citizenship, spends the war years in Paris.
The last and perhaps the main peak of creativity is the technique of "biomorphic abstractions" ("The Dominant Curve", 1936, "Composition 10", 1939, "Around the Circle, 1940, "Various Incidents", 1941, "Double Chord", 1942) On December 13, 1944, Kandinsky died in Neuilly sur Seine from arteriosclerosis.
V. Kandinsky in Paris REFERENCES
(Biography and articles)
V. Kandinsky " On the Spiritual in Art"
V. Kandinsky "On the Spiritual in Art" (in English)
V. Kandinsky " A point and a line on a plane"
V. Kandinsky "On the understanding of art"
Article about Kandinsky in the Russian language Wikipedia
Article about Kandinsky in the English language Wikipedia
I. Vanechkina, B. Galeev " Kandinsky and Scriabin: Myths and reality"
"The sound of painting (V. V. Kandinsky)"
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