Chinese Princess
Francesco Bassano the younger
Fourth Style painting from Herculaneum
Marquis, James Richard
O say
La Peche -40-
Le Pont-au-Change et le Palais de Justic
Quiet
Self-Portrait s
Recreation by our Gallery
Calcar, Johan Stephen von
The violent opposing Divine odrder in th
Education is Everything
The Port of Saint-Tropez -09-
The Artist-s Parents
Lear, Edward
Stevenson
Ostade, Isaack Jansz. van
Venus Anadyomenes
Winter Landscape af
Christ -45-
Both Hands with Miniature garden of woma
The Miracle of the True Cross near the S
CARDUCHO, Vicente
Prince Charles Edward Stuart -25-
Redan
The Martyrdom of St Ursula f
Girl with a Rose st
The Deliverance of Arsinoe
Hummingbirds and Two Varieties of Orchid
Carousing Couple sg
The Solothurn Madonna -detail-
Frederick spencer gore
La La at the Cirque Fernando
Golden Hours
The Banquet of the St.George Militia Com
Rockwell
Portrait of a Lady with White Collar and
Miramarbeach
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and his W
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Wassily Kandinsky:
1866-1944
Wassily Kandinsky Galleries
was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract works.
Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose to study law and economics. Quite successful in his profession??he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat??he started painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.
In 1896 he settled in Munich and studied first in the private school of Anton Azbe and then at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He went back to Moscow in 1914 after World War I started. He was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Moscow and returned to Germany in 1921. There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France where he lived the rest of his life, and became a French citizen in 1939. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944.
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