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Who painted “Couple on Horseback”?

“Couple on Horseback” was painted by Wassily Kandinsky in 1906. Where to see it: Lenbachhaus.

Couple on Horseback — Wassily Kandinsky

Expressionism

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Wassily Kandinsky: abstract compositions of floating colour, lines and circles; earlier, blazing colour landscapes, later precise geometric forms.

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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