Known as the first truly abstract artist, he would have been 148 years old today
Renowned Russian artistcelebrating in its latest Doodle, only started painting when he was 30.
Born in Moscow in 1866, Kandinsky grew up in Odessa and then studied
Law and Economics before being offered a professorship at the University
of Dorpat, Estonia. He left this position in 1896 and relocated to
Munich seeking admission into the city’s Academy of Fine Arts. After
initially being shunned, he entered the academy a few years later, where
he flourished as a painter and an art theorist.
Kandinsky, who was inspired to take up painting by French impressionist painter Claude Monet’s iconic Haystacks and composer Richard Wagner’s opera Lohengrin,
is known as the first truly abstract artist and often likened painting
to music. “Colour is the keyboard, the eyes are the hammers, the soul is
the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand which plays,
touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul,” he wrote
in his iconic text Concerning the Spiritual In Art.
Kandinsky moved back to his native Russia following the outbreak of
World War I in 1914, but returned to Germany in 1921 after being
dissatisfied with the official theories of art under the communist
regime. In 1933 he emigrated to France, where he lived out the rest of
his days until his death in 1944
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