Kandinsky - oeuvres des collections du musee

[Kandinsky] Derouet, Christian / Boissel, Jessica (Editors). Kandinsky. œvres de Vassily Kandinsky (1866-1944). French Edition. Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1984. 30 cm x 24 cm. 495 pages. With many black-and-white and colour illustrations throughout the book. Original Softcover. From the library of dutch fashion designer Frans Molenaar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Includes for example the following essays: Compositions scéniques théàtre / L'arriere-pays russe / Der Blaue Reiter / Der Sturm / L'intermède Suédois, 1915-1916 / 1918 Texte de l'artiste / De la méthode de travail sur l'art synthétique / Argus de Presse 1922-1933 etc etc. Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 - 13 December 1944) was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting one of the first purely abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated at Grekov Odessa Art school. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics. Successful in his profession-he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat-Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. In 1896 Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. He returned to Moscow in 1914, after the outbreak of World War I. Kandinsky was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Communist Moscow, and returned to Germany in 1921. There, he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France, where he lived for the rest of his life, becoming a French citizen in 1939 and producing some of his most prominent art. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944. His grandson is musicologist Aleksey Ivanovich Kandinsky. (Wikipedia).