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 ...

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 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 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 ...

Born in Moscow and raised in Odessa (then in Czarist Russia, now in Ukraine), Kandinsky left his homeland twice, becoming a citizen of Germany, but then returning to Russia, before leaving again ...

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.

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 ...