Composition VI Poster

Composition VI Wassily (Vasily) Kandinsky (1866-1944) Medium: Oil on canvas Year: 1913 Housed at: Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia Recommended printing size at 300 PPI: 33x22 in Maximum at 100+ PPI: 78x52 in Before placing your order, select the “Customize it!” button on the lower right below “Add to cart,” then select “Print Options” mid-upper left. Enter one of the dimensions for the desired frame size. Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky, (4 December 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter, and art theorist. 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 studylaw and economics. Quite successful in his profession—he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at theUniversity 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 Ažbe 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. He then moved to France where he lived the rest of his life, and became a French citizen in 1939. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944. Credit: Adapted from Wikipedia All information is provided for educational purposes only.