Kandinsky, Wassily Timeline: Towards Abstraction Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life. -- Wassily Kandinsky, 1911 Kandinsky, Wassily, Russian in full VASILY VASILYEVICH KANDINSKY (b. Dec. 4 , 1866, Moscow, Russia--d. Dec. 13, 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Fr.), Russian-born artist, one of the first creators of pure ab straction in modern painting. After successful ...

This site was designed to present the developments in Russian painting from its beginnings to the twentieth century. It includes background information and biographies of selected painters, as well as descriptions of important paintings, schools, and art movements.