KANDINSKY Wassily

(1866-1944)

Russian – French painter. He is one of the precursors of Abstract Art. He is one of Abstract Art’s precursors. He lived in Russia, Germany and then France. With Frantz Marc, he founded “Der Blaue Reiter” (The Blue Rider) but was also a member of the Bauhaus in Berlin. He expressed his inner emotions without using figurative art. He integrated geometrical motifs in his abstract art .