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Born in Moscow, the painter Wassily Kandinsky founded, with Franz Marc, the "Blaue Reiter" ("Blue Rider") group in Munich, Germany in 1911. He joined the Bauhaus in 1922 to first head the "Murals" workshop. From 1927 until 1933 he taught the increasingly popular free painting class.

WASSILY KANDINSKY

A review of Kandinsky's "Compositions," a body of works created between 1911 and 1939. 
The WebMuseum shows a number of Kandinsky's paintings. At the bottom of the page you will find a biography.
Books
Concerning the Spiritual in Art (By Wassily Kandinsky &M. T. Sadler, 1977)  First published in 1912, Kandinsky explores the psychological effects of color.
Kandinsky (Great Modern Masters). (By Wassily Kandinsky, Alberto Curotto & Jose Maria Faerna, 1996) - a good introduction to the works of Kandinsky.
Kandinsky (By Thomas M. Messer, 1997) - this 128-pages book features 40 color plates.

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