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Reviewer: Laura Ferguson The Gallery: National Gallery of Art Online The Visit: October 10th 2002 Resource: (http://www.nga.gov/kids/kandinsky/kandinsky1.html) The Artist: Wassily Kandinsky Biographical Information: Kandinsky was born in Moscow on Dec. 4 He studied law and political economy at the University of Moscow, but after a visit in 1895 to an exhibition of French impressionist paintings in Moscow, Kandinsky decided to become a painter. Moving to Munich, Germany, he worked under Anton Azbé and Franz von Stuck. Between 1900 and 1910 Kandinsky traveled widely, including visits to Paris that put him in contact with the art of Paul Gauguin, the neoimpressionists. Kandinsky painted his first abstract watercolor in 1910 and began formulating his important theoretical study, 'Concerning the Spiritual in Art', which was published originally in German in 1912. In this work he examined the psychological effects of color and made comparisons between painting and music. With the outbreak of World War I, Kandinsky left Germany to return to Russia, where he taught and numerous artistic activities. He went back to Germany in 1921 and became one of the principal teachers at the Bauhaus school in Weimar, remaining with the school until it was closed by the Nazi regime in 1933. Kandinsky then moved to a Parisian suburb, where he stayed until his death on Dec.
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