years before Wassily Kandinsky or Kazimir Malevich, the long-hailed progenitors of abstraction, did anything similar. Af Klint’s work met with consternation in her own day and the artist ...

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 ...

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But in her lifetime, and the decades after her death, Münter lived in relative obscurity, long-eclipsed by her 12-year love affair with Wassily Kandinsky, the pioneering Russian artist and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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“Form itself, even if completely abstract,” Wassily Kandinsky once said, “has its own inner sound.” By that measure, the new exhibition at the H’ART Museum must be a symphony. At ...

Wassily Kandinsky. The show, which runs through Nov. 10, presents some 60 paintings by the artist, all but two of which come from the Pompidou Center in Paris, which owns a vast trove of around ...