Where to See Wassily Kandinsky

6 more museums hold works by Wassily Kandinsky with smaller collections, not listed here.

• Who was Wassily Kandinsky influenced by?+

  Wassily Kandinsky was inspired by the approaches to light and colour taken by Vincent van Gogh and Claude Monet. He also believed that art can be a manifestation of spirituality, so he created abstract paintings, lithographs, and wood engravings.
• What materials did Wassily Kandinsky use?+

  Kandinsky painted with oil on canvas, cardboard, or wood, and with tempera on coloured paper. He also used gouache and oil on board, oil and sand on canvas, and oil on glass; throughout his career, he painted watercolours with crisp, bold brushstrokes of translucent colour over pencil or ink, flowing wet washes, or fine particles of sprayed pigment obscuring the paper.
• How did Wassily Kandinsky become an artist?+

  As a child, Wassily Kandinsky loved to paint, and the effects of colours on him were deep. He acknowledged his long-standing fascination with painting by refusing a professorship of law in 1896^[8] and leaving for a full-time study of art in Munich.
• Was Wassily Kandinsky a good person?+

  According to Nina Kandinsky, Wassily Kandinsky charmed all who met him with his manners, dignity, and natural elegance. He was called "The Prince" by his circle of friends, and there was nothing brusque about him.
• Is Wassily Kandinsky famous?+

  Wassily Kandinsky is known as a pioneer of abstract art, and he explored the effects of colour through paint. He was a leader of new ideas, and his art changed from figurative paintings.
• Why did Wassily Kandinsky make abstract art?+

  Kandinsky's theories are based on the principle of "inner necessity", which he defines as the guiding principle in all realms of spiritual.
• Did Wassily Kandinsky have synesthesia?+

  The connection between colour and sound was not metaphorical for Wassily Kandinsky, as he experienced synesthesia: he heard colours and saw sounds. He assigned specific correspondences, such as yellow being middle C on a brassy trumpet, and black being closure.
• Was Wassily Kandinsky a christian?+

  According to reports from his relatives and friends, Wassily Kandinsky was a practicing member of the Russian^[8] Orthodox Church and an avid collector of old icons. Photographs of his Munich apartment and his house in Murnau show many Christian images; for example, a photograph from 1911^[8] shows him sitting at his desk in his Munich apartment at 36 Ainmillerstraße.