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Wassily Kandinsky

1866 - 1944

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Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. In 1896, Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private school and then at the Academy of Fine Arts. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wassily Kandinsky is the 27th most popular painter (up from 28th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Russia (down from 19th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Painter.

Wassily Kandinsky is most famous for his abstract paintings.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Wassily Kandinsky ranks 27 out of 2,023. Before him are Paul Gauguin, Giotto, Donatello, Titian, Gustav Klimt, and El Greco. After him are Piet Mondrian, Édouard Manet, Eugène Delacroix, Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, and Amedeo Modigliani.

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Among people born in 1866, Wassily Kandinsky ranks 2. Before him is H. G. Wells. After him are Romain Rolland, Sun Yat-sen, Erik Satie, George Gurdjieff, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Alfred Werner, Charles Nicolle, Benedetto Croce, Jacinto Benavente, and Giovanni Agnelli. Among people deceased in 1944, Wassily Kandinsky ranks 3. Before him are Edvard Munch, and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. After him are Piet Mondrian, Romain Rolland, Erwin Rommel, Claus von Stauffenberg, Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom, William James Sidis, Charles Glover Barkla, Abdulmejid II, and Günther von Kluge.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Wassily Kandinsky ranks 20 out of 3,761. Before him are Anton Chekhov (1860), Nikita Khrushchev (1894), Grigori Rasputin (1869), Ivan the Terrible (1530), Boris Yeltsin (1931), and Alexander Pushkin (1799). After him are Ayn Rand (1905), Ivan Pavlov (1849), Maxim Gorky (1868), Lev Yashin (1929), Yuri Andropov (1914), and Mikhail Bakunin (1814).

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Among PAINTERS In Russia

Among painters born in Russia, Wassily Kandinsky ranks 1. After him are Andrei Rublev (1360), Ivan Shishkin (1832), Nicholas Roerich (1874), Alexej von Jawlensky (1864), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), Natalia Goncharova (1881), Viktor Vasnetsov (1848), Vasily Vereshchagin (1842), Marianne von Werefkin (1860), Vasily Perov (1834), and Lovis Corinth (1858).

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