Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist active in Germany during the late Belle Époque and Interwar eras. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstra
Kandinsky, c. 1925
Munich-Schwabing with the Church of St. Ursula (1908)
Akhtyrka, 1901, Lenbachhaus, Kunstarealm, Munich
Gabriele Münter was a German expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century. She studied and lived with the painter Wassily Kandinsky and was a foun
Wassily Kandinsky
…at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. During this time, he was first the teacher and then the partner of German artist Gabriele Münter. He returned to Moscow in 1914 after the outbreak of World War I. Following the Russian Revolution, Kandinsky "became an insider in the cultural…
Münter portrayed by Kandinsky
Münter in Kallmünz in 1903, carrying a freshly painted canvas