Wassily Kandinsky
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Schnittke Day at the Southbank Centre, London SE1...Imagined Play, featuring Jurowski on comb and paper), the other irritating and large (The Yellow Room, based on a 1912 theatrical libretto by Wassily Kandinsky). Dashingly performed, though, by members of the LPO. All this and the premiere... In this article: Alfred Schnittke, Southbank Centre, London, Swoops, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, and Wassily Kandinsky |
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Houston Chronicle | 5 days ago
New book examines life at the Bauhaus art school
...at the pioneering Bauhaus art school of the 1920s and early 1930s - told him about life at the Bauhaus. Walter Gropius, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe are among the key figures who appear in The Bauhaus Group:...
In this article: Josef Albers, Bauhaus, Bauhaus, Paul Klee, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Anni Albers
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TIME | November 14, 2009
Haus Beautiful: the Impact of Bauhaus
...weaving. Over time the Bauhaus faculty would include some enduring names in 20th century art and design, including Josef and Anni Albers, Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. They were all in their different ways ardent modernists, but in its...
In this article: Walter Gropius, Bauhaus, Paul Klee, Johannes Itten, Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler, Bauhaus, and World War I
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Village Voice | November 09, 2009
Abe & Arthur's Says Goodbye to Disco, Hello to Comfort Food
...space stations at eye level, and the room was surrounded by a scrim, limned with faded images that recalled prehistoric pictographs, or maybe Wassily Kandinsky. Adjacent to the balcony sprawled another large barroom-proving, at least, that the...
In this article: Liver, Schmaltz, Bisque, Tomato sauce, Sour cream, Champagne, Bread, and Foie gras
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Telegraph.co.uk - International news | November 05, 2009
Sotheby's modern art auction fetches GBP110m
...expectations despite the world economic crisis. Published: 11:36AM GMT 05 Nov 2009 'Krass und Mild' (Dramatic and mild) by Wassily Kandinsky Sotheby's said 85 per cent of the 66 works by artists including Giacometti, Derain and Dali...
In this article: Sotheby's, Salvador Dali, Girafe, Pablo Picasso, and Asia
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Yahoo! News | November 03, 2009
Fall auctions off to a limp start at Christie's (Reuters)
...make sellers more confident about selling in the future. Artists whose works achieved solid prices included Tamara De Lempicka, Wassily Kandinsky and Salvador Dali, whose "Nu dans la plaine de Rosas" sold for $4,002,500. The auctions...
In this article: Salvador Dali, Tamara de Lempicka, Sotheby's, and Mideast
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Miami Herald - Breaking News | October 30, 2009
New book puts a spotlight on the Bauhaus movement
...follows the lives and careers of famed Bauhaus architects Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and of the painters Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky. Weber also offers a truly touching portrait of the husband-and-wife team of Josef and...
In this article: Bauhaus, Josef Albers, Bauhaus, Paul Klee, Han van Meegeren, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Jonathan Lopez, and Knopf
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New York Daily News | October 20, 2009
Editorial: Golden Guggenheim
...his collection of contemporary art. The holdings have been expanded to include works by, among many others, Alexander Calder, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky and Marc Chagall. On the museum's first Sunday, thousands had to be turned...
In this article: Frank Lloyd Wright, Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Guggenheim Museum, and The New York Times
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Telegraph.co.uk - Arts | October 11, 2009
Picasso and Warhol artworks to be auctioned at Sotheby's
Major artworks by Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol, David Hockney and Wassily Kandinsky will sold at auction in Sotheby's New York next month. Picasso's Buste d'homme that will be sold by Sothebys next month Photo: Julian Andrews Among the...
In this article: Andy Warhol, Sotheby's, Pablo Picasso, David Hockney, London, and New York
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BBC | September 26, 2009
Seen and heard
...side in the exhibition and will be available to download for free from the museum's website from 22 October. Other artists featured include Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Bridget Riley, Ceri Richards and Josef Herman. Bryony Dawkes,...
In this article: Damien Hirst, Roger Fenton, Cardiff, Paul Klee, Ceri Richards, Bridget Riley, and The Hours
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FT.com - Arts & Weekend | July 24, 2009
Wassily Kandinsky at the Centre Pompidou
...fed into Kandinsky's experiments, crystallising in his work for the "Blaue Reiter" (Blue Rider) group which he founded in 1911. Blue was Kandinsky's "heavenly colour"; riders, his favourite motif, derived from icons and denoted spiritual...
In this article: Centre Pompidou, Moscow, Paris, Gabriele Munter, Lenbachhaus, Bauhaus, and New York
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Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (Russian: Василий Васильевич Кандинский, Vasilij Vasil'evič Kandinskij, first name pronounced as [vassi:li]) ( – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract works.
Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose to study law and economics. Quite successful in his profession—he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat—he started painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.
In 1896 he settled in Munich and studied first in the private school of Anton Ažbe and then at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He went back to Moscow in 1914 after World War I started. He was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Moscow and returned to Germany in 1921. There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France where he lived the rest of his life, and became a French citizen in 1939. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944.
- Name At Birth:
- Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky
- Birth Date:
- December 16, 1866
- Birthplace:
- Moscow
- Death Date:
- December 13, 1944
- Place of Death:
- Neuilly-sur-Seine
- Nationality:
- Russian
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