Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky, born in Moscow in 1866, was a Russian painter, graphic artist and art theorist, and one of the most important artists of Expressionism and abstract art. In 1896 he moved to Munich, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and co-founded the Munich New Artists' Association. Together with artists such as August Macke and Franz Marc, Kandinsky formed the well-known group The Blue Rider, which was dissolved in 1914 with the outbreak of World War I. After Kandinsky had become professor of arts in Moscow, he returned to Germany in 1922 to teach at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture in Weimar. With the rise of the National Socialism in 1933, Kandinsky moved to Neuilly-sur-Seine, where he died in 1944.