Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky Wassily Kandinksy was born on December 4, 1866 in Moscow, Russia. ... When Kandinsky was little he drew, wrote poems, and played the piano and the cello. ... Between 1897 and 1899 Kandinsky attended the Azbe School of Painting in Munich, and in 1900 he was a pupil of Franz Von Struck. In 1901 Kandinsky founded the artists’ group Phalanx and taught at their private art schools. ... Kandinsky early impressionist-inspired paintings and those of his Jugendstil period are strong in color, and color continued to dominate his landscapes of Murnau, where he bought a house in 1909. ... Kandinsky and Marc founded the Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) group in Munich in 1911 and exhibited with them. ... The exhibition was repeated in the Strum Gallery in Berlin, for which a special Kandinsky album was issued.