“to impress a tune upon unmusical children with the help of colours ... She (Unkovskaya) has constructed a special, precise method of”
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Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky 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. Born in Moscow, he began painting studies at the age of 30.
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culture · Russian painter and art theorist (1866–1944) · painter · university teacher · visual artist · art theorist · teacher · lawyer · illustrator · printmaker · graphic artist · architectural drafter · also Wassily Kandinsky, Wassily Wassiljewitsch Kandinsky, Vasili Vasilevich Kandinsky, Vasilii Vasilevich Kandinskii, Vasily Vasil'yevich Kandinsky, Vasilij Kandinski
Born 4 December 1866 · Died 13 December 1944 · Q61064
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2020· 1 entry
A committee established by the Dutch minister of culture found fault with the behaviour of the Restitution Committee, causing a scandal where two of its members, including its chairman, resigned
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2017· 1 entry
Robert Colin Lewenstein, Francesca Manuela Davis and Elsa Hannchen Guidotti filed suit against Bayerische Landesbank (BLB) for the restitution of Kandinsky's Das Bunte Leben
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2015· 1 entry
The original designs of the stage elements were animated with modern video technology and synchronized with the music according to the preparatory notes of Kandinsky and the director's script of Felix Klee
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2013· 1 entry
The Lewenstein family filed a claim for the restitution of Kandinsky's Painting with Houses held by the Stedelijk Museum
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2012· 1 entry
Christie's auctioned Kandinsky's Studie für Improvisation 8 (Study for Improvisation 8), a 1909 view of a man wielding a broadsword in a rainbow-hued village, for $23 million
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1990· 1 entry
When Sotheby's sold his Fugue (1914) for $20
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1962· 1 entry
“You must buy it for our old age”
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1944· 2 entries
Died 1944-12-13.
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“El crítico de arte es el peor enemigo del arte.”
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1939· 1 entry
And producing some of his most prominent art
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1936· 2 entries
And 1939, he painted his final two major compositions, the type of elaborate canvases he had not produced for many years
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But it was not exhibited after 1949; it was then sold at auction to a private collector in 1964 by the Solomon R
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1932· 1 entry
For Berlin, where it remained until its dissolution in July 1933
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1928· 1 entry
The stage production premiered at a theater in Dessau
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1923· 1 entry
With Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger and Alexej von Jawlensky at the instigation of Galka Scheyer, who promoted their work in the United States from 1924 onward
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1921· 2 entries
Career landmark: claim for restitution of an artwork.
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Kandinsky was invited to go to Germany to attend the Bauhaus of Weimar by its founder, architect Walter Gropius
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1916· 1 entry
Met Nina Nikolaevna Andreevskaya (1899–1980), whom he married on 11 February 1917 when she was 17 or 18 and he was 50 years old
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1914· 1 entry
Ended these plans and sent Kandinsky back to Russia via Switzerland and Sweden
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1913· 1 entry
Following a visit by father and son to meet Kandinsky in Munich that year
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1911· 2 entries
The German expressionist painter was one of several artists joining Kandinsky in his Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter) group, which ended with the onset of World War I
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Kandinsky's text Über das Geistige in der Kunst (Concerning the spiritual in art) defines three types of painting: impressions, improvisations and compositions
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1910· 1 entry
Participated in the Allied Artists' Exhibition (organised by Frank Rutter) at London's Royal Albert Hall
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1909· 2 entries
Wassily Kandinsky witnessed a presentation Aleksandra Unkovskaya made (at the Theosophical Congress in Budapest) regarding her innovative system in music education, sound-to-colour synesthesia or Chromesthesia which is
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Münter bought a summerhouse in the small Bavarian town of Murnau and the couple happily entertained colleagues there
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1908· 1 entry
Bought a copy of Thought-Forms by Annie Besant and Charles Webster Leadbeater
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1906· 1 entry
From 1906 to 1908, Kandinsky travelled across Europe.
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1902· 1 entry
In the summer of 1902, Kandinsky invited Gabriele Münter to join him at his summer painting classes just south of Munich in the Alps.
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1896· 2 entries
Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts
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At the age of 30, Kandinsky gave up a promising career teaching law and economics to enroll in the Munich Academy where his teachers would eventually include Franz von Stuck
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1892· 1 entry
Kandinsky married his cousin, Anja Chimiakina, and became a lecturer in Jurisprudence at the University of Moscow
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1889· 1 entry
At age 23, he was part of an ethnographic research group that travelled to the Vologda region north of Moscow
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1871· 1 entry
The young Kandinsky learned to play the piano and cello
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1866· 1 entry
Born 1866-12-04.
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