Is Kandinsky the inventor of abstract painting?”
Wassily Kandinsky – 1866-1944 Russian born Wassily Kandinsky is considered as the inventor and theorist of abstract painting in the 20th century. In 1910 Wassily Kandinsky had seen an Islamic art exhibition in Munich – a highly decorative art style that does not allow to show images of human beings. The same year Kandinsky created his first abstract painting. For copyright reasons we cannot show you any images of art works by Kandinsky on this web page. Instead we decorated it with images of woodblock prints by modern Chinese artist Ma Li, born 1958. Kandinsky’s Early Years Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866. He grew up in a bourgois, cultured family and learned to play the piano and the cello. In 1886 he began to study law and economics at the Moscow University. After passing his exams he started a teaching career at the Moscow Faculty of Law. He had many interests and apparently a great gift to teach himself different skills. In 1895 Kandinsky saw an exhibition of French im
