Wassily Kandinsky loved music and could play the cello and the piano. His paintings were even inspired by music. He literally saw colours when he heard music and heard music when he painted.

Wassily Kandinsky, best known as the pioneer of abstract painting, kept a trove of sketchbooks between 1889 and 1935. Twelve of these sketchbooks are now the focus of a new release from No More ...

Below are seven interesting facts about this exceptional artist of her time. For a long time, it was believed that Wassily Kandinsky introduced abstraction into painting in 1911. However ...

One—Wassily Kandinsky—is remembered as an influential visionary and pioneer of abstraction; the other, Alexej Jawlensky (1864-1941), is now just getting his due. In 2017, the Neue Galerie New ...

By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam Murnau, a village in the Bavarian Alps, is often recognized as the place where Wassily Kandinsky discovered ... for “insufficient facts,” the same ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Wassily Kandinsky loved music and could play the cello and the piano. His paintings were even inspired by music.

The heirs have argued that the work by Wassily Kandinsky was sold under duress by its Jewish owners after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands. Today, works depicting the blankets of white that ...