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Vasily
Kandinsky was born December 4, 1866, in Moscow. From 1886-92, he studied law and
economics at the University of Moscow, where he lectured after graduation. In
1896, he declined a teaching position in order to study art in Munich with Anton
Azbe from 1897 to 1899 and at the Kunstakademie with Franz von Stuck in 1900.
Kandinsky taught in 1901-03 at the art school of the Phalanx, a group he had cofounded
in Munich. One of his students, Gabriele Munter, would be his companion until
1914. In 1902, Kandinsky exhibited for the first time with the Berlin Secession
and produced his first woodcuts. In 1903 and 1904, he began his travels in Italy,
the Netherlands, and North Africa and his visits to Russia. He showed at the Salon
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1909, Kandinsky was elected president of the newly founded Neue Kunstlervereinigung
Munchen (NKVM). The group's first show took place at Heinrich Thannhauser's Moderne
Galerie in Munich in 1909. In 1911, Kandinsky and Franz Marc began to make plans
for Der Blaue Reiter Almanac, although the publication would not appear until
the following year. Kandinsky's. On the Spiritual in Art was published in December
1911. He and Marc withdrew from the NKVM in that month, and shortly thereafter
the Blaue Reiter group's first exhibition was held at the Moderne Galerie. In
1912, the second Blaue Reiter show was held at the Galerie Hans Goltz, Munich.
Kandinsky's first solo show was held at Der Sturm gallery in Berlin in 1912. In
1913, one of his works was included in the Armory Show in New York and the Erste
deutsche Herbstsalon at the Der Sturm gallery in Berlin. Kandinsky lived in Russia
from 1914 to 1921, principally in Moscow, where he held a position at the People's
Commissariat of Education. | | |
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