Брожко Екатерина
11 а Класс
МБОУ «СОШ № 12»
г. Северодвинска
Wassily Kandinsky
16 December 1866 – 13 December 1944
Youth
Kandinsky was born in Moscow, the son of Lidia Ticheeva and Vasily Silvestrovich Kandinsky, a tea merchant. Kandinsky learned from a variety of sources while in Moscow.
He studied many fields while in school, including law and economics. In 1889, he was part of an ethnographic research group which travelled to the Vologda region north of Moscow.
In 1896, at the age of 30, Kandinsky gave up a promising career teaching law and economics to enroll in the Munich Academy where his teachers would eventually include Franz von Stuck.
In 1896, at the age of 30, Kandinsky gave up a promising career teaching law and economics to enroll in the Munich Academy where his teachers would eventually include Franz von Stuck.
Blue Rider Period (1911–1914)
Kandinsky's paintings from this period are large, expressive coloured masses evaluated independently from forms and lines; these serve no longer to delimit them, but overlap freely to form paintings of extraordinary force.
«Blue Rider»
«Two on a horse»
Return to Russia (1914–1921)
From 1918 to 1921, Kandinsky was involved in the cultural politics of Russia and collaborated in art education and museum reform. He painted little during this period, but devoted his time to artistic; he also helped organize the Institute of Artistic Culture in Moscow of which he was the first director. His spiritual, expressionistic view of art was ultimately rejected by the radical members of the Institute as too individualistic and bourgeois. In 1921, Kandinsky was invited to go to Germany to attend the Bauhaus of Weimar by its founder, architect Walter Gropius.
«Moscow Red Square»
«Twilight»
Back in Germany and the Bauhaus (1922–1933)
In May 1922 he attended the International Congress of Progressive Artists.
Kandinsky taught the basic design class for beginners and the course on advanced theory at the Bauhaus; he also conducted painting classes and a workshop in which he augmented his colour theory with new elements of form psychology. TGeometrical elements took on increasing importance in both his teaching and painting.
Kandinsky was one of Die Blaue Vier (Blue Four). Kandinsky then left Germany, settling in Paris.
«Yellow, blue, red»
«Sky blue»
«Last watercolor»