Kandinsky, Composition, XXe Siècle (after)
1966

About the Item

Woodcut on wove paper. Good Condition; never framed or matted. Notes: From the volume, XXe Siècle, vol. no. 66, 1927. Published by Editions XXe Siècle, Paris; Printed by Mourlot, Paris, 1966. WASSILY KANDINSKY (1866-1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art and in influence to the Modern masters including, Picasso. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in Odessa, Ukraine, where he graduated from 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 30. In 1896 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 1914, 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 outlook... was foreign to the argumentative materialism of Soviet society", and opportunities beckoned in Germany, to which he returned in 1920. 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 for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in 1939 and producing some of his most prominent art. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944, three days before his 78th birthday.

Creation Year:

1966

Dimensions:

Height: 9.5 in (24.13 cm)Width: 13.375 in (33.98 cm)

Medium:

Woodcut

Movement & Style:

Modern

After:

Wassily Kandinsky (1866 - 1944, Russian)

Period:

1960-1969