The German artist Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) is considered to be the first entirely abstract artist. Prior to World War II, Kandinsky was part of the Expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter and later ...

Geometric Abstraction in the 18th Century until May 2025, XNUMX at the Barberini Museum in Vienna. Featuring major works on ...

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The Blue Rider is the name of a picture, a periodical and a movement, all centred on the intense, bespectacled figure of Wassily Kandinsky. He painted one of the pictures with that title ...

Because there's more than one way, you know. Just ask the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky. Late one night in 1908, he was walking through his studio and he saw an incredible picture. It was just ...

Wassily Kandinsky loved music and could play the cello and the piano. His paintings were even inspired by music. He literally saw colours when he heard music and heard music when he painted.