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 ...

“When Wassily Kandinsky said yes, I said no, and when he said no, I said yes.” This artistic dissent was exactly what Gropius wanted for his school, for he felt it would further his objective: “the ...

the convention-smashing interwar German institution where he studied and taught alongside trailblazing artists like Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee in the 1920s. Bayer left the Bauhaus in 1928 for ...

“When Wassily Kandinsky said yes, I said no, and when he said no, I said yes.” This artistic dissent was exactly what Gropius wanted for his school, for he felt it would further his objective: “the ...

Herbert Bayer (1900-1985) is one of the individuals most closely identified with the famous Bauhaus program in Weimar, Germany. Together with Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy, and Wassily Kandinsky, ...

Named after the Russian painter and art theorist Wassily Kandinsky, the chair (originally ... He was the head of cabinet-making at The Bauhaus, the famous art school at the epicentre of the ...

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.