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Wassily Kandinsky, Russian in full Vasily Vasilyevich Kandinsky, born December 4, 1866, Moscow, Russia—died December 13, 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
Russian-born artist, one of the first creators of pure abstraction in modern painting. After successful avant-garde exhibitions, he founded the influential Munich group Der Blaue Reiter and began completely abstract painting. His forms evolved from fluid and organic to geometric and, finally, to pictographic.
