Wassily Kandinski

The painter Wassily Kandinski was born in 1866 in Moscow.

After ending of a law study Wassily Kandinski went in 1896 to Munich where he worked, among others, with Franz von Stuck and learnt from him . At that time Wassily Kandinski was influenced very much by the art nouveau and also by the traditional Russian folk art.

In Munich Wassily Kandinski met the young artist Gabriele Münter who became from now on his muse and partner . In 1909 Wassily Kandinski founded together with Muenter and the Russian painter Alexej Jawlensky the new artist's union Munich. Then Wassily Kandinski painted, especially, the fauvistische paintings which were determined more and more by abstract motives.

In 1911 the group became the new artist's union "the blue rider". Vassily Kandinski in this time was close with his painter friend Franz Marc.

In 1912 Vassily Kandinskis groundbreaking book "about the spiritual appeared in art".

During the First World War Vassily Kandinski returned to Moscow and spent there the years of war.

After the separation from Gabriele Münter he was active in the 1920s in the inhabitant of Weimar and Dessauer Bauhaus. There he created only strictly geometrical constructions. The picture construction and the composition principles were the most important principle for the musically eager painter.

With his second wife Nina Vassily Kandinski emigrated during the second world war to Paris where he died in 1944.