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Wassily Kandinsky

1866–1944 · Germany · Expressionism, Symbolism, Modernism

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December 1866 – 13 December 1944) 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. Wikipedia

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Abstract compositions of floating colour, lines and circles; earlier, blazing colour landscapes, later precise geometric forms.

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Works

• “Composition VII”, 1913 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “The Blue Rider”, 1903
• “Composition VIII”, 1923 — Guggenheim Museum
• “Colorful Life”, 1907 — Lenbachhaus
• “Yellow-Red-Blue”, 1925 — Centre Pompidou
• “Composition VI”, 1913 — Hermitage Museum
• “On White II”, 1923 — Centre Pompidou
• “Sky Blue”, 1940 — Centre Pompidou
• “Composition X”, 1939 — Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
• “Several Circles”, 1926 — Guggenheim Museum
• “Couple on Horseback”, 1906 — Lenbachhaus
• “Composition IV”, 1911 — Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen
• “Murnau, Landscape with a Tower”, 1908 — Centre Pompidou
• “Impression III (Concert)”, 1911 — Lenbachhaus
• “Upward”, 1929 — Peggy Guggenheim Collection
• “Composition IX”, 1936 — Centre Pompidou
• “Moscow I”, 1916 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “Accent on Pink”, 1926 — Centre Pompidou
• “Movement I”, 1935 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “Arab City”, 1905 — Centre Pompidou
• “Red Spot II”, 1921 — Lenbachhaus
• “Thirty”, 1937 — Centre Pompidou
• “Tempered Elan”, 1944 — Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
• “Blue Mountain”, 1908 — Guggenheim Museum
• “Reciprocal Accords”, 1942 — Centre Pompidou
• “Circles in a Circle”, 1923 — Philadelphia Museum of Art
• “Improvisation 26”, 1912 — Lenbachhaus
• “The Lake”, 1910 — Tretyakov Gallery
• “Swinging”, 1925 — Tate
• “Composition V”, 1911
• “Painting with White Border”, 1913 — Guggenheim Museum
• “Three Elements”, 1925 — Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
• “Landscape with Red Spots, No. 2”, 1913 — Peggy Guggenheim Collection
• “Graceful Ascent”, 1934 — Guggenheim Museum
• “Gorge”, 1914 — Lenbachhaus
• “Murnau View With Railway and Castle”, 1909 — Lenbachhaus
• “Colourful Ensemble”, 1938 — Centre Pompidou
• “Akhtyrka, Red Church”, 1900 — Russian Museum
• “In Grey”, 1919 — Centre Pompidou
• “Church at Murnau”, 1910 — Van Abbemuseum

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