9 Things You Didn't Know About The Artist Wassily Kandinsky

Today is the birthday of Russian artist Wassily Kandinsky, a man whose abstract art made history in the 20th century and whose name continues to stump English speakers long after his death. The beloved painter and printmaker — celebrated with a Google 

Kandinsky returned to Moscow after the outbreak of World War I, but was not sympathetic to the official theories on art in communist Russia and went back to Germany in 1921, where he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until

Google Doodle Wassily Kandinsky. December 16th was Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky and Google honored the artist with a doodle: "Today, our homepage around the world marks the 148th birthday of influential Russian painter Wassily Wassilyevich 

Born on December 4, 1866 in Moscow Russia, Wassily Kandinsky was a painter, printmaker, stage designer, art theorist, and a central artist in the development of 20th century abstract art. Kandinsky studied economics 

The Russian artist credited with painting one of the first entirely abstract works has been honoured with a Google doodle on what would have been his 148th birthday. Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866 and