Wassily Kandinsky Death
Wassily passed away on December 13, 1944 at the age of 77 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Franc.
When did Wassily Kandinsky die?
December 13, 1944How old was Wassily Kandinsky when died?
77Where did Wassily Kandinsky die? What was the location of death?
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Franc
Wassily Kandinsky Birthday and Date of Death
Wassily Kandinsky was born on December 16, 1866 and died on December 13, 1944. Wassily was 77 years old at the time of death.
Birthday: December 16, 1866
Date of Death: December 13, 1944
Age at Death: 77
Wassily Kandinsky - Biography
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Канди́нский, tr. Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Born in Moscow in 1866, Wassily Kandinsky took up the study of art in earnest at age 30, moving to Munich to study drawing and painting. A trained musician, Kandinsky approached color with a musician’s sensibility. An obsession with Monet led him to explore his own creative concepts of color on canvas, which were sometimes controversial among his contemporaries and critics, but Kandinsky emerged as a respected leader of the abstract art movement in the early 20th century.
He is credited with painting one of the first recognized purely abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa, 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—Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.
Writing that "music is the ultimate teacher," Kandinsky embarked upon the first seven of his ten Compositions. The first three survive only in black-and-white photographs taken by fellow artist and friend Gabriele Münter. While studies, sketches, and improvisations exist (particularly of Composition II), a Nazi raid on the Bauhaus in the 1930s resulted in the confiscation of Kandinsky's first three Compositions. They were displayed in the State-sponsored exhibit "Degenerate Art", and then destroyed (along with works by Paul Klee, Franz Marc and other modern artists).
Kandinsky died of cerebrovascular disease in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, on December 13, 1944.
