Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist who became a pioneer of abstract art, abandoning a successful career in law to pursue painting in Munich at age 30 after being inspired by a Claude Monet exhibition. He was a co-founder of the Blue Rider art group and later taught at the influential Bauhaus school in Germany, which the Nazis closed in 1933, forcing him to flee to Paris. Kandinsky authored the influential treatise Concerning the Spiritual in Art, which spread his ideas on pure abstraction and the spiritual significance of color and form, impacting 20th-century art.
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
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