Vasily Kandinsky
b.1866 Moscow
d.1944 Nueilly-sur-Seine,France
Several Circles
1926
oil on canvas
Abstract Expressionism
In 1922 Kandinsky began teaching at the Bauhaus,a school of art and applied science founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany.There he discovered an environment sympathetic to his belief in arts ability to transform self and society.Several Circles epitomizes his movement toward a universal abstraction and his even greater interest the psychological effects of form and color.Kandinsky moved with the Bauhaus in 1925 to Dessau Germany where he and Paul Klee lived in conjoined houses and often exchanged ideas on technique.In 1930 Solomon R.Guggenheim and his art advisor Hilla Rebay,visited Kandinsky and Klee at the Bauhaus.
Vasily Kandinsky
b.1866 Moscow
d.1944 Nueilly-sur-Seine,France
Several Circles
1926
oil on canvas
Abstract Expressionism
In 1922 Kandinsky began teaching at the Bauhaus,a school of art and applied science founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany.There he discovered an environment sympathetic to his belief in arts ability to transform self and society.Several Circles epitomizes his movement toward a universal abstraction and his even greater interest the psychological effects of form and color.Kandinsky moved with the Bauhaus in 1925 to Dessau Germany where he and Paul Klee lived in conjoined houses and often exchanged ideas on technique.In 1930 Solomon R.Guggenheim and his art advisor Hilla Rebay,visited Kandinsky and Klee at the Bauhaus.