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Category:	Modern Art
Name:	Wassily Kandinsky The Road to Expressionism
Birth Year:	1866
Death Year:	1944
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography Blog Wassily Kandinsky SEARCH NOW: by title by author Find your favorite art: barewalls.com Wassily Kandinsky (or Vasily Kandinsky), 1866 - 1944, was a painter and art theorist. He was born in Russia but lived for many years in Paris and Munich. The Blaue Reiter group of artists was established in Munich in 1911 and Kandinsky was one of the founders. Other well-known artists that were part of it were Franz Marc, August Macke, Gabriele Munter and Paul Klee. The members were interested in European Medieval art and primitivism as well as the contemporary, non-figurative art scene in France. The name of the movement comes from a painting of a blue knight that was used on the front of an almanac edited by its members. Kandinsky was a lecturer at the Bauhaus - a short name for Staatliches Bauhaus - an art school in Germany from 1919-1933. The school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar in 1919; in 1925 the school moved to Dessau, and again in 1932 to Berlin. Walter Gropius was the head of the school throughout 1919-1928, followed by Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The school was closed on the order of Nazi regime in 1933. It had a major impact on art and architecture trends for the next decades. The main interest of the school was architecture but also other branches of art. It issued a magazine Bauhaus and a series of books Bauhausbuecher. The head of printing and design was Herbert Bayer. [This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License and uses material adapted in whole or in part from the Wikipedia article on Wassily Kandinsky.] The Great Books: Wassily Kandinsky This web page is part of a biographical database on Great Ideas. These are living ideas that have shaped, defined and directed world culture for over 2,500 years. By definition the Great Ideas are radical. As such they are sometimes misread, or distorted by popular simplifications. Understanding a Great Idea demands personal engagement. Our selection of Great Ideas is drawn from literature and philosophy, science, art, music, theatre, and cinema. We also include biographies of pivotal historical and religious figures, as well as contributions from women and other historically under-represented minorities. The result is an integrated multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary database built upon the framework of a Great Books Core List developed by Mortimer Adler (1902-2001). Please browse our Amazon list of titles about Wassily Kandinsky. For rare and hard to find works we recommend our Alibris list of titles about Wassily Kandinsky. Post Comments, Questions or Suggestions! This database is maintained by Malaspina Great Books © 1995-2004.
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This web page is part of a biographical database on Great Ideas. These are living ideas that have shaped, defined and directed world culture for over 2,500 years. By definition the Great Ideas are radical. As such they are sometimes misread, or distorted by popular simplifications. Understanding a Great Idea demands personal engagement. Our selection of Great Ideas is drawn from literature and philosophy, science, art, music, theatre, and cinema. We also include biographies of pivotal historical and religious figures, as well as contributions from women and other historically under-represented minorities. The result is an integrated multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary database built upon the framework of the always controversial Great Books Core List published in 1940 by the late Great Books Pioneer Mortimer Adler (1902-2001). Most of the works on that list are available in the 60 volume Great Books of the Western World.