Artist profile
Wassily Kandinsky
1866–1944
Russian · Central Europe
Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was a Russian-born painter, printmaker, watercolorist, and influential theorist of abstraction. After leaving an academic legal career, he moved to Munich and helped found the progressive Blue Rider group. Kandinsky treated color and form as expressive forces rather than tools for depicting objects, developing a spiritual theory of artistic inner necessity that helped lead his work toward abstraction.
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Biography
Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was a Russian-born painter, printmaker, watercolorist, and influential theorist of abstraction. After leaving an academic legal career, he moved to Munich and helped found the progressive Blue Rider group. Kandinsky treated color and form as expressive forces rather than tools for depicting objects, developing a spiritual theory of artistic inner necessity that helped lead his work toward abstraction.
