Wassily Kandinsky

The painter Vassily Kandinski was born in 1866 in Moscow.

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

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

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

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

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

After the separation of 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.