Bauhaus Typography at 100, curated by Rob Saunders and Henry Cole Smith, will feature work by Johannes Itten, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Herbert Bayer, and Joost Schmidt ...

A painting by Russian Modernist Wassily Kandinsky that once belonged to victims of the Nazi Holocaust, has sold for £37.2 million ($44.55 million) at Sotheby’s in London. Part of the auction ...

A masterpiece by Kandinsky, "Murnau Mit Kirche II," recently recovered by the heirs of its owner, a German Jew killed by the Nazis, sold for $44.5 million Wednesday in London, a new auction record ...

By Catherine Hickley A state-owned bank in Bavaria announced on Monday that it would return a masterpiece by Wassily Kandinsky that has hung in a German museum since 1972 to the descendants of a ...

By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam Murnau, a village in the Bavarian Alps, is often recognized as the place where Wassily Kandinsky discovered abstraction. While living there with his ...

An early abstract masterpiece by Wassily Kandinsky that was recently restituted to the descendants of its original owners, Johanna Margarete Stern and Siegbert Samuel Stern, will be offered at ...

By Catherine Hickley The German government’s advisory panel on Nazi-looted art has recommended a vibrant tempera painting by Wassily Kandinsky be returned to the heirs of a Jewish family who ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Wassily Kandinsky loved music and could play the cello and the piano. His paintings were even inspired by music.

Kandinsky was a Russian avant-garde artist, working in the late 19th to mid-20th century. He is best known for his abstract paintings, many of which were inspired by music. It is speculated he had ...

3, no. 7, cover design by Joost Schmidt, 1926 To celebrate the impact of Bauhaus’s typography over the past century ... Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, and Johannes Itten. The show aims to trace the ...