Here's everything you need to know about Wassily Kandinsky, and some of his finest works. Strandszene (1909) Kandinsky was born on December 16th, 1866 in Moscow, the son of a tea merchant.

The artwork of 20th-century painter Wassily Kandinsky (Russian, 1866–1944) is a staple of the Guggenheim’s permanent collection. The exhibition currently on view, Kandinsky in Paris, 1934 ...

Wassily Kandinsky, Murnau mit Kirche II, 1910 Courtesy Sotheby's. ... The couple ran in a 1920s Berlin social circle that included Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka.

I n New York City, two major exhibitions trace the development of abstraction in the work of Wassily Kandinsky and Georgia O’Keeffe. Kandinsky in 1936 Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), one of the ...

A blockbuster exhibition of works by Wassily Kandinsky - one of Russia's greatest Modernist artists - will be held in Zagreb next year. The show, which will be at the Croatian capital's Art ...

A state-owned bank in Bavaria announced on Monday that it would return a masterpiece by Wassily Kandinsky that has hung in a German museum since 1972 to the descendants of a Jewish family that ...

Murnau, a village in the Bavarian Alps, is often recognized as the place where Wassily Kandinsky discovered abstraction. While living there with his girlfriend, the artist Gabriele Münter, he ...

Kandinsky's Painting With a Circle(1911) is considered the world's first abstract painting, though it was several years before the painter's assistant wrote on the back of it: "First non-objective ...