1848-94   Related Paintings of Pierre Auguste Renoir :. | Girl Braiding Her Hair | Noirmoutier | At the Cafe | Henry Lerolle | Three Figures in Landscape |
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Karl Edvard Diriks
Norway (1855 -1930 ) - Painter
Frans Jansz van Mierisi
1635-1681 Dutch Frans Jansz van Mierisi Gallery
Vassily Kandinsky
Russian-born French Expressionist Painter , 1866-1944 was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose to study law and economics. Quite successful in his profession??he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat??he started painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. In 1896 he settled in Munich and studied first in the private school of Anton Azbe and then at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He went back to Moscow in 1914 after World War I started. He was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Moscow and returned to Germany in 1921. There he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933.