Wassily Kandinsky Prints
1866–1944 · Russian (later German and French) · Abstract art
Wall art by Wassily Kandinsky, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
38 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866 and grew up in Odessa. He studied law and economics at Moscow University and was offered a teaching post at Dorpat, but in 1896, at thirty, he gave up the law and moved to Munich to study painting, first at Anton Ažbe's school and then under Franz von Stuck at the academy. With Gabriele Münter, his companion from 1903, he travelled widely before settling between Munich and the market town of Murnau, where from 1908 his colour broke free of description. Between 1910 and 1913 he painted some of the first fully abstract pictures in European art, set out his ideas in On the Spiritual in Art (1911) and, with Franz Marc, founded the Blue Rider. The war sent him back to Russia in 1914; after the Revolution he worked in the new Soviet art institutions, then returned to Germany at the end of 1921 and taught at the Bauhaus in Weimar, Dessau and finally Berlin until the school closed under Nazi pressure in 1933. His later work replaced the turbulent improvisations with circles, grids and precise geometry. He spent his last years in Neuilly-sur-Seine, outside Paris, where he died in 1944. Early or late, his paintings are built from colour and form alone, and they hold a wall the way music fills a room: there is no subject to tire of, only relationships to keep discovering.