Personal Profile:
Hello! My name is Wassily Kandinsky. I was born on December 6, 1866 in Moscow, Russia but according to the Gregorian calendar I was born the 16th of December. My full name is Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky. My parents are Lidia Ivanovna Tikheeva and Vasili Silverstrovich. When I was 5 years old my family moved to Odessa, Ukraine. I grew up in a middle class, cultured family. I learned to play the cello and piano. In 1886 I began to study law and economics at Moscow University. After passing all of my exams I started teaching law at the Moscow Facility of Law. In 1896, at the age of thirty, I decided to start a new career as an artist and went to Munich in Southern Germany. I enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts for four years until 1900. When the German Nazis came to power in 1933, all modern art was considered as entartet (degenerated art) and the Bauhaus was closed in 1933. My works of art were removed from German museums and were confiscated. I moved to Neuilly-sur-Seine, France and stayed there until my death in 1944.
Images:
FRIENDS and other masters that influenced me and were influenced by me:
Franz Kline Jackson Pollock Willem De Kooning Mark Rothko
About my art:
I worked in a wide range of materials and painted on canvas, board, wood, plywood, glass, compressed board, and canvas-board. Kandinsky's choice of vivid colors and pigments is legendary. He employed oil, watercolor, gouache, and tempera.
I worked in a wide range of materials and painted on canvas, board, wood, plywood, glass, compressed board, and canvas-board. Kandinsky's choice of vivid colors and pigments is legendary. He employed oil, watercolor, gouache, and tempera.
Other notables during my lifetime:
Inventions, famous people, timeline info-that occurred during my lifetime.
1866 - I was born
1914 - WW1 starts
1919 - Treaty of Versailles is signed by Germany
1929 - Stock market chrashes
1939 - WW2 begins
1866 - I was born
1914 - WW1 starts
1919 - Treaty of Versailles is signed by Germany
1929 - Stock market chrashes
1939 - WW2 begins