Wassily Kandinsky

Born

December 16, 1866

Died

December 13, 1944 (aged 77)

Known as

painter, university teacher, visual artist, art theorist, teacher, lawyer

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist active in Germany during the late Belle Époque and Interwar eras. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art. Born in Moscow, he began painting studies at the age of 30.

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