# Wassily Kandinsky

> He cracked open painting itself — took away the objects, the landscapes, the faces, and left only color and form answering to something internal. Before Kandinsky, Western art depicted the world; after him, it could depict feeling directly.

*Avant-garde painter of Russian origin (1866-1944)*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/wassily-kandinsky

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Artist
- **Category:** Artists
- **Country:** France
- **Born:** 1866-11-22
- **Died:** 1944-12-13
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in Moscow in 1866, Kandinsky didn't pick up a brush in earnest until thirty, abandoning a law career for art school in Munich in 1896. He studied under Anton Ažbe and at the Academy of Fine Arts, eventually teaching — then living with — German painter Gabriele Münter. World War I pulled him back to Moscow in 1914, and after the Revolution he worked inside Anatoly Lunacharsky's cultural administration, helping found the Museum of the Culture of Painting. But his spiritual bent sat poorly with Soviet materialism, so he returned to Germany in 1920 and taught at the Bauhaus from 1922 until the Nazis shuttered it in 1933. He moved to France, became a citizen in 1939, and spent his final years painting in Neuilly-sur-Seine, where he died in 1944.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 67.3 / 100
- **Momentum:** 0.6 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 27.3 / 100
- **Now attention:** 17.7 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 70.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #69

## Topics
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## Sources
- [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Kandinsky)
- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61064)
- [Pantheon 2.0](https://pantheon.world/profile/person/Wassily%20Kandinsky)
- [فاسيلي كاندينسكي](https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%84%D9%8A_%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%8A)
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- [Vasili Kandinski](https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Kandinski)
- [Vasili Kandinski](https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Kandinski)
- [Кандинский Василий Васильевич](https://ba.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87)
- [Васіль Кандзінскі](https://be_x_old.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B7%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%96)
- [Васіль Васільевіч Кандзінскі](https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%96%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%96%D1%87_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B7%D1%96%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D1%96)
- [Василий Кандински](https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8)
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- [Vassily Kandinsky](https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassily_Kandinsky)
- [Vasilij Kandinski](https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasilij_Kandinski)
- [Vassili Kandinski](https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassili_Kandinski)
- [Vasilij Kandinskij](https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasilij_Kandinskij)
- [Кандинский Василий Васильевич](https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B4%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B8%D0%B9_%D0%92%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%BB%D1%8C%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87)
- [Wassily Kandinsky](https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Kandinsky)
- [Vasilij Kandinskij](https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasilij_Kandinskij)
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- [Vasilij Kandinskij](https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasilij_Kandinskij)
- [Vasili Kandinski](https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Kandinski)
- [Vassili Kandinsky](https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vassili_Kandinsky)
- [Vasili Kandinski](https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Kandinski)
- [Wikiquote](https://cs.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vasilij_Kandinskij)
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- [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Wassily_Kandinsky)
- [Wikiquote](https://es.wikiquote.org/wiki/Vasili_Kandinski)

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