KANDINSKY WASSILY

Birth and Life

Wassily Kandinsky

painter

Date of birth 16. 12. 1866
Country of birth Russia

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Death

Date of death 13. 12. 1944
Cemetery Cimetière nouveau de Neuilly, next to La Grande Arche at Defense, Paris, France
GPS coordinates of the cemetery 48.894687, 2.233063

Summary from Wikipedia

In 1896 Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. He returned to Moscow in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I. Following the Russian Revolution, Kandinsky "became an insider in the cultural administration of Anatoly Lunacharsky"[1] and helped establish the Museum of the Culture of Painting.[2] However, by then "his spiritual outlook... was foreign to the argumentative materialism of Soviet society",[3] and opportunities beckoned in Germany, to which he returned in 1920. There he taught at the B ...

Author of contribution: Janez, published 29. 1. 2016

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