Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited...

Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Emil Nolde) and Der Blaue Reiter (Vasili Kandinski, Franz Marc, August Macke, Paul Klee). Other exponents were the Vienna...

artists who would later stand out in avant-garde art: Vasili Kandinsky and Kasimir Malevich. Kandinski studied law, economics and politics before turning...

as well as some aniconic tendencies that would lead to abstract art (Kandinski). Its first reference was the group Die Brücke, founded in Dresden in...