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 ...

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 ...

who was Wassily Kandinsky's companion until 1914. On her eightieth birthday in 1957, she bequeathed more than a thousand works by the Blue Rider artists to the Lenbachhaus, among them ninety oil ...

The group numbered several artists – including the Russian Wassily Kandinsky ... faced" ellipse with "startled blue dots" for eyes; another likeness of Kandinsky himself sees the painter ...

a major exhibition in the UK is being dedicated to the Blue Rider group of artists from the early 20th century. London's Tate Modern is set to show works by Gabriele Münter, Wassily Kandinsky ...

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.