Herwarth walden and wassily kandinsky biography

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10 things to know about Wassily Kandinsky

The Moscow-born artist is widely acknowledged as one of the fathers of abstraction. Here, Alastair Smart picks out key moments and works from an extraordinary life — illustrated with outstanding works offered at Christie’s

Wassilly Kandinsky photographed in 1936. Photo: Boris Lipnitzki/Roger-Viollet/Topfoto

An encounter with Monet changes everything

Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866 to a multicultural, bourgeois family: his father was a tea merchant from Siberia, his mother descended from Mongolian aristocracy. He trained as a lawyer, and was Associate Professor of Law at Moscow University before ever picking up a paintbrush. Everything changed when, in 1896, he came upon a painting from Monet’s ‘Haystack’ series in an exhibition — and was awestruck. The way the worldly forms dissolved into a blaze of colour ‘surpassed [his] wildest dreams’, Kandinsky would later explain. 

A move to the Alps sparks a stunning advance

That year, at the age of 30, Kandinsky abandoned his career and moved to Munich to study art. Among the early styles he embraced were Impressionism and Jugendstil (the German equivalent of Art Nouveau). Travels across the rest of Europ

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The Bauhaus and Geometric Abstraction



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Kandinsky left Russia for the second time in 1921, leaving behind a boiling post-revolutionary creative environment and the emerging educational system. This experience probably helped him realize his potential, but during the first years after the revolution only. Political restrictions, the narrow worldview of the powers that be and, of course, harsh living conditions that were aggravated by the unceasing civil war and that caused the death of his little son Vsevolod - all this ultimately forced the artist to leave his homeland. Nevertheless, the participation in exhibitions of Soviet avant-garde artists and managing the Moscow arts studio definitely paid off.

Izo-Narkompros, Moscow 1918

In Berlin, where he and Ninaarrived on the eve of the New Year 1922, the conditions were quite hard too. The political instability after the coup of 1918-1919 and the general post-war economic recession caused the ungovernable inflation. Pictures the artist left in the care of his Berlin dealer Herwarth Walden prior to leaving Russia dropped in value significantly. Kandinsky had no connections in local art circles, and German art itself had changed a lot over the years.

Blue Segment, 1921

Through his friend Paul Klee, the artist