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Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky [a] (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 in western art .
Gabriele Münter by Kandinsky, 1903. See also her portrait of him, 1906. [1] This is an incomplete list of paintings by the Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944). During his life, Kandinsky was associated with the art movements of Der Blaue Reiter, Expressionism and Abstract painting. Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of ...
Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) abstractionist painter Der Blaue Reiter, 1903: Munich-Schwabing with the Church of St. Ursula, 1908: Composition VII, 1913: Mikhail Kaneev (1923–1983) cityscape and landscape painter Nikolay Kasatkin (1859–1930) realist painter Rival Ladies, 1890: Miner girl, 1894: Who?, 1897: Ivan Khrutsky (1810–1885)
Gabriele Münter (19 February 1877 – 19 May 1962) was a German expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century. [1] She studied and lived with the painter Wassily Kandinsky and was a founding member of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter.
The Blue Rider (German: Der Blaue Reiter) is an oil painting executed in Bavaria in 1903 by the Russian emigré artist Wassily Kandinsky. It is now held in a private collection in Zürich, and shares its name with an almanac and the art movement he would co-found with Franz Marc in the early 1910s.
Wassily Kandinsky, cover of Der Blaue Reiter almanac, c. 1912. Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) was a group of artists and a designation by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc for their exhibition and publication activities, in which both artists acted as sole editors in the almanac of the same name (first published in mid-May 1912).
Even before 1910, [note 20] Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) [99] studied the Theosophical books [22] [100] [101] of Blavatsky, Besant and Leadbeater, Steiner, and Schuré. [ 3 ] [ 102 ] [ note 21 ] In 1912, he wrote in his main theoretical work Über das Geistige in der Kunst on the importance of Theosophy "for his art".
Kandinsky had published his own theory on color and synesthesia in his Concerning the Spiritual in Art (1911). Kandinsky never saw The Yellow Sound performed during his lifetime. He and his Blue Rider colleagues, including Franz Marc , August Macke , and Alfred Kubin , worked intensively on a planned 1914 Munich production, but it was cancelled ...