Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian-born painter and theorist who helped establish abstraction as a major direction in twentieth-century art. His paintings explored how color, geometric form, and musical analogy could create meaning without representational subjects. He co-founded Der Blaue Reiter in Munich and later taught at the Bauhaus, where his theories influenced modern art and design. After the Bauhaus closed in 1933, he settled in France and continued painting until his death in 1944.