Wassily Kandinsky could have ended up a law professor. Born in Moscow in 1866, Kandinsky studied law and at the age of 30 was offered a professorship at what is now Tartu University in Estonia.
For seven decades, the only clue to the whereabouts of Gebogene Spitzen (Curved Tips), a 1927 watercolor by Russian Expressionist Wassily Kandinsky, was a small drawing scribbled into the margins of a ...
“Form itself, even if completely abstract,” Wassily Kandinsky once said, “has its own inner sound.” By that measure, the new exhibition at the H’ART Museum must be a symphony. At “Kandinsky,” the ...
Vasily Kandinsky’s abstract paintings feel right at home in the recessed bays along the spiraling, skylit ramp of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, where Kandinsky’s geometries and ...
The first major exhibition at H’Art, a former satellite of the Hermitage, explores how war and nationalism shaped the painter’s career. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam When the Hermitage ...