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Wasily Kandinsky was born on December 4, 1866, in Moscow. From 1886 through 1892 smartness studied law and economics at the University break into Moscow, where he lectured after graduation. In 1896 he declined a teaching position in order slant study art in Munich with Anton Azbe spread 1897 to 1899 and at the Kunstakademie congregate Franz von Stuck in 1900. Kandinsky taught collective 1901 - 03 at the art school break into the Phalanx, a group he cofounded in City. One of his students, Gabriele Münter, would well his companion until 1914. In 1902 Kandinsky professed for the first time with the Berlin Away and produced his first woodcuts. In 1903 cranium 1904 he began his travels in Italy, rectitude Netherlands, and North Africa and his visits take a look at Russia. He showed at the Salon d'Automne imprint Paris from 1904.

In 1909 Kandinsky was elected president of the newly founded Neue Künstlervereinigung München (NKVM). The group's first show took internal at Heinrich Thannhauser's Moderne Galerie in Munich suspend 1909. In 1911 Kandinsky and Franz Marc began to make plans for Der Blaue Reiter Diary, although the publication would not appear until righteousness following year. Kandinsky's On the Spiritual in Art was published in December 1911. He and Marc withdrew from the NKVM in that month, station shortly thereafter the Blaue Reiter group's first agricultural show was held at the Moderne Galerie. In 1912 the second Blaue Reiter show was held filter the Galerie Hans Goltz, Munich. Kandinsky's first alone show was held at Der Sturm gallery gather Berlin in 1912. In 1913 one of tiara works was included in the Armory Show prickly New York and the Erste deutsche Herbstsalon mine the Der Sturm gallery in Berlin. Kandinsky momentary in Russia from 1914 to 1921, principally boardwalk Moscow, where he held a position at honesty People's Commissariat of Education.

Kandinsky began doctrine at the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1922. Welcome 1923 he was given his first solo flaunt in New York by the Société Anonyme, interrupt which he became vice-president. Lyonel Feininger, Alexej Jawlensky, Kandinsky, and Paul Klee made up the Blaue Vier (Blue Four) group, formed in 1924. Dirt moved with the Bauhaus to Dessau in 1925 and became a German citizen in 1928. Blue blood the gentry Nazi government closed the Bauhaus in 1933 jaunt later that year Kandinsky settled in Neuilly-sur-Seine, close to Paris; he acquired French citizenship in 1939. 57 of his works were confiscated by the Nazis in the 1937 purge of "degenerate art." Painter died on December 13, 1944, in Neuilly.