Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was a Russian painter and art theorist, born in Moscow in 1866 and generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art. In 1911 he co-founded Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) in Munich with Franz Marc, August Macke and Gabriele Munter, a loose group whose almanac and exhibitions helped define German Expressionism before the First World War broke it apart. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, in 1944, five years after taking French citizenship.
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NationalityRussian; became a French citizen in 1939 1 Death PlaceNeuilly-sur-Seine, France 1 Connections
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Wassily Kandinsky co-founded Der Blaue Reiter in Munich in 1911, alongside Franz Marc.
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Founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), the Munich-based group whose 1911-1912 almanac and exhibitions helped define German Expressionism.
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generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art
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In 1911 he co-founded Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) in Munich with Franz Marc, August Macke and Gabriele Munter, a loose group whose almanac and exhibitions helped define German Expressionism before the First World War broke it apart.
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