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Wassily Kandinsky’s 1909 painting of the steps up to Murnau castle has not been exhibited since 1916 and its whereabouts was unknown to scholars until recently. It was long hidden in the private ...
Use our easy chalk pastel art lesson to learn how to create unique abstract drawings inspired by famous artists, like Wassily Kandinsky. Draw a crazy abstract line with glue. Start on one side of ...
Kandinsky took up painting by chance and rather late in life, when he was already 30 years old and a successful lawyer. Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) is one of Russia’s most famous artists and ...
Just ask the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky ... With these ideas, Kandinsky helped to create a whole new type of painting, called abstract art. But all those other painters, who'd spent ...
Wassily Kandinsky’s A Colorful Life (1907) once belonged to Dutch art collector Emanuel Lewenstein, a Jewish director of a large sewing machine factory. Lewenstein and his wife Hedwig owned a ...
It’s a shame that the two preeminent stars of abstract art—Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky—never met in person. At one point, Swedish-born af Klint and Russian-born Kandinsky were miles ...
Wassily Kandinsky‘s 1910 artwork Murnau mit Kirche ... by the Nazi Party between 1939 and 1945 and owned an extensive art collection seized during the war. The descendants of Johanna Margarethe ...
The first major exhibition at H’Art, a former satellite of the Hermitage ... and who also severed ties with his homeland: Wassily Kandinsky. The show, which runs through Nov. 10, presents ...
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 ...