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Biography |
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Born: Moscow, Russia (December 4) |
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1886 - 1892 |
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University of Moscow |
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1897 - 1899 |
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Studied under the private instruction of Anton Azbe |
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1900 |
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Enters Kunstakademie (The Munich Academy of Arts) and studies under Franz Stuck |
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1900 |
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Participated in the exhibition of the Moscow Partnership of Artists |
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1901 |
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Founds Phalanx, an art group |
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1909 |
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Founds the New Group of Artists (Neue Kunstlervereinigung), and becomes the President |
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1911 |
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Kandinsky and Frantsem Mark establish the group Blue Rider (Blaue Reiter) |
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1910 - 1912 |
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Participates in the exhibition of “Jack of Diamonds” art group |
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1912 |
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Publishes Concerning the Spiritual in Art, the first theoretical foundation of abstractionism |
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1922 |
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Joins the Bauhaus school of art and architecture by invitation of founder Walter Gropius and teaches there until its close by the Nazis in 1933 |
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1944 |
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Died at Neuilly-sur-Seine |
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Exhibitions |
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2009 - 2010 |
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Sept. - Jan., "Kandinsky - Absolute. Abstract", New York |
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2009 |
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April - Aug., "Kandinsky - Absolute. Abstract", Paris |
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2006 |
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June 22 - Oct. 1, "Kandinsky, The Path to Abstraction", Tate Modern, London |
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1909 |
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Neue Künstlervereinigung München (NKVM). Heinrich Thannhauser’s Moderne Galerie. Munich, Germany. |
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