Squares with Circles, Abstract, Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky ( December – December ) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as the pioneer of abstract art. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa (today Ukraine), where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art school. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession—he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia)—Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of . In , Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe’s private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. He returned to Moscow in , after the outbreak of World War I. Following the Russian Revolution, Kandinsky “became an insider in the cultural administration of Anatoly Lunacharsky” and helped establish the Museum of the Culture of Painting. However, by then “his spiritual was foreign to the argumentative materialism of Soviet society”,[4] and opportunities beckoned in Germany, to which he returned in . There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from until the Nazis closed it in . He then moved to France, where he lived for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in and producing some of his most prominent art. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in . Quote:Wikipedia