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Wassily Kandinsky
[Russian-born French Expressionist Painter, 1866-1944]

• Also known as:  Vasilij Kandinskij
Vasilii Kandinskii
Vasily Kandinski
• Relationships: Lived with Gabriele Munter for a decade until he returned to Russia on the outbreak of World War I.
Associated with the Bauhaus School in Weimar, Germany.
Founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a Munich group of Expressionist painters.
Member of the Abstraction-Creation Group in Paris, 1930s.
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Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database   NEW!
8 works by Wassily Kandinsky online

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
4 works online

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Wassily Kandinsky

Guggenheim Museum, New York City

Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
5 paintings

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
6 works

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
15 works by Wassily Kandinsky online

Wassily Kandinsky at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
4 works by Wassily Kandinsky

New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Orange, color lithograph, 1923

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
White Cross, 1922

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
3 works online

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Upward, 1929

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
Landscape with Red Spots, No. 2, 1913

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
The Waterfall

Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan

Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Study for 'Painting with white border', 1913

Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK

Bauhaus-Archiv Museum of Design, Berlin
Description of Kandinsky's classes on "Analytical Drawing" and "Primary Artistic Design", taught at the Bauhaus school 1923-1933
(Several of Kandinsky's works can be found elsewhere on the site)

Beyeler Foundation Collection, Switzerland

Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas, Austin
Lithographie fur die Fierte Bauhausmappe, 1922

Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Illinois
2 works online (Note that this site opens each work in a new window)

Carlos Museum at Emory University, Georgia
The Birds from Xylographies

Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Kleine Welten, Iv

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Davison Art Center at Wesleyan University, Connecticut
Abstraction, lithograph, 1922

Didrichsen Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Eglise à Murnau

Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (in German)   NEW!  
Landschaft mit Kirche, 1913

Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany (in German)   NEW!  
Der Blaue Reiter, 1912

Gallerie di Palazzo Leoni Montanari, Vicenza, Italy

Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
Bild mit weisser Form, 1913

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts   NEW!

Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Kleine Welten VII, 1922

Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
Parallel Diagonals

Kunsthaus Zurich

Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland   NEW!
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Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany

Wassily Kandinsky in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee

Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin   NEW!
Fragment I for Composition VII (Center)

MUMOK - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
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Musée d'Art Moderne, Lille, France (in French)  

Museo Ca' Pesaro, Venice (in Italian)  
Zig Zag bianchi, 1922

Museo Ca' Pesaro, Venice (in Italian)  
Tre triangoli, 1938

Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy (in Italian)  

Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)  

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam   NEW!
Lyrisches, 1911

Museum of Modern Art, New York City - Provenance Research Project
10 works by Kandinsky

National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Eastern suite (Arabs III)

National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
Composition

Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)  
Murnau, case nello Obermarkt, 1908

Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)  
Nell'ovale luminoso, 1925

Philadelphia Museum of Art
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3 works by Wassily Kandinsky online

Portland Museum of Art, Maine   NEW!
Stramm (Strong), 1929

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Improvisation No.20, 1911

Reina Sofía National Museum, Madrid

Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Winter Landscape, 1911

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Linie-Fleck (Line-Spot), 1927

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)  

Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art, Amsterdam
Painting with Houses, 1909

Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)  
Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2004 exhibition

Tate Gallery, London, UK

The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland
Untitled, 1923

The Jewish Museum, New York City
Several images from a 2003-04 exhibition

Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid

Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia (mostly in Russian)  
Improvisation VII, 1913

Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands

Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands
Blick auf Murnau mit Kirche, 1910

Virtual Museum of Canada

Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)  

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)   NEW!  

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Pictures from Image Archives:
Wassily Kandinsky at CGFA

Wassily Kandinsky at Insecula

Wassily Kandinsky in the WebMuseum

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

AICT: Art Images for College Teaching
Improvisation III: Picture with a Yellow Wall, 1909
Improvisation XIV, 1910
Yellow - Red - Blue

Artyzm

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Humanities Web

Wassily Kandinsky at ImageNETion
Gallery 1: 18 works online

Wassily Kandinsky at ImageNETion
Gallery 2: 18 works online

Malek Gallery
12 paintings

Olga's Gallery

PBase Photo Sharing
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Wassily Kandinsky at The Athenaeum
18 works online by Kandinsky

The Halter Collection

University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser

USC Annenberg School for Communication

 
Web Sites About the Artist:
Kandinsky Gallery

 
Other Web Sites:
Artdreamguide (in Italian)  
Biographical information and a guide to the museums owning important collections of the artist's work.

Auburn University Liberal Arts Department

Gallery of Russian Art

History of Russian Painting

Kilidavid

The Modernist Journals Project   NEW!

 
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Wassily Kandinsky
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Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info

Brain-Juice - 20th Century Biographies

Time Magazine
"Preparing for Abstraction", 1982 article by Robert Hughes

  
 
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