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The original master and father of abstraction himself! His output was astonishing - in the Kandinsky Gallery below you will find some of the paintings I love most. For further information about the artist read the Wassily Kandinsky Biography below.

Wassily Kandinsky Biography

Wassily Kandinsky is regarded as the father of modern abstraction, and he was certainly unsurpassed as the main theorist for the movement. Born in Moscow in 1866, he originally studied and taught law, and did not decide to become an artist until he was thirty years old. He then enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, from which he graduated in 1900.

Kandinsky had interests in a great many different things and the ability to learn new skills and absorb knowledge quickly. After graduating as an artist, things then developed rapidly for Kandinsky, with many exhibitions throughout Europe. In 1911 he formed a group of artists called Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider, named after a 1903 painting by Kandinsky).

In 1910 Kandinsky painted his first abstract painting, and two years later published a book on the theory of abstraction, ‘Concerning The Spiritual In Art’. Other artists in The Blue Rider group included Paul Klee, August Macke and Franz Marc, but the group was not destined for a long future due to the outbreak of World War I.

When war broke out Kandinsky went back to his native Russia, but returned to Germany in 1992, where he taught at the Bauhaus until 1933. This was a very productive period for Kandinsky, but when the Nazis came to power in 1933, the Bauhaus was closed and Kandinsky's work (then deemed to be 'degenerate') was confiscated.

At this point Kandinsky moved to France, where he lived near Paris until his death in 1944.

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