Wassily Kandinsky was an influential Russian painter and art theorist, now celebrated as one of the pioneers of pure abstraction in modern painting. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing digital readers to explore the works of the world’s greatest artists in comprehensive detail. This volume presents Kandinsky’s pre-1923 works in beautiful detail, with concise introductions, hundreds of high quality images and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * A comprehensive range of Kandinsky’s works—over 200 paintings, fully indexed and arranged in chronological and alphabetical order * Includes reproductions of rare works * Features a special ‘Highlights’ section, with concise introductions to the masterpieces, giving valuable contextual information * Enlarged ‘Detail’ images, allowing you to explore Kandinsky’s celebrated works in detail, as featured in traditional art books * Hundreds of images in stunning colour – highly recommended for viewing on tablets and smart phones or as a valuable reference tool on more conventional eReaders * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the paintings * Easily locate the paintings you want to view * Includes Kandinsky's celebrated treatise CONCERNING THE SPIRITUAL IN ART * Scholarly ordering of plates into chronological order Please to comply with US copyright law, this US edition of the eBook does not include Kandinsky’s painting produced after 1922. When new works enter the public domain, they will be added to the eBook as a free update. Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting e-Art books The Highlights ODESSA PORT PORTRAIT OF GABRIELE MÜNTER THE BLUE RIDER COUPLE RIDING CEMETERY AND VICARAGE IN KOCHEL MURNAU-VIEW WITH RAILWAY AND CASTLE PICTURE WITH ARCHER LYRICAL IMPROVISATION 26 SMALL PLEASURES BLACK STROKES I MOSCOW I RED OVAL STOREYS COMPOSITION VII The Paintings CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF PAINTINGS ALPHABETICAL LIST OF PAINTINGS The Treatise CONCERNING THE SPIRITUAL IN ART Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles
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Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter, and Art theorist. He is credited with painting the first modern abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose to study law and economics. Quite successful in his profession—he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat—he started painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. In 1896 he settled in Munich and studied first in the private school of Anton Ažbe and then at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He went back to Moscow in 1914 after World War I started. He was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Moscow and returned to Germany in 1921. There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France where he lived the rest of his life, and became a French citizen in 1939. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944.
