Wassily Kandinsky in WWII

Wassily Kandinsky

A Russian-born painter and art theorist. Known as one of the pioneers of abstract painting in Western art, he liberated color, line, and form from real-world subjects and pursued painting with spiritual and musical resonance. After studying law and economics, he turned to art seriously at the age of 30 and was active primarily in Germany. He co-founded "Der Blaue Reiter" (The Blue Rider) with Franz Marc and later taught at the Bauhaus. Following the closure of the Bauhaus by the Nazi regime, he emigrated to France and continued creating art until his final years.

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Year	Wassily Kandinsky
1866	Birth of Wassily Kandinsky (Period: December 16, 1866 (December 4 in the Old Style), Location: Moscow (currently Moscow, Russian Federation))
1886	Study of law and economics (Age: 19 years old, Period: 1886–1892, Location: Moscow, Russian Empire)
1889	Ethnographic research trip to Vologda Governorate (Age: 22 years old, Period: 1889, Location: Vologda Governorate, Russian Empire)
1892	Marriage (Wassily Kandinsky, Anna (Anya) Chimiakina, Age: 25 years old, Period: 1892, Location: Moscow, Russian Empire)
1896	Transition to becoming an artist (Age: 29 years old, Period: 1896, Location: From Moscow to Munich, Germany)
1901	Formation of Phalanx (Age: 34 years old, Period: 1901, Location: Munich, Germany)
1902	Meeting and joint activities with Gabriele Münter (Age: 35 years old, Period: 1902–1916, Location: Munich, Murnau, and other places in Germany, and Europe)
1909	Establishment of the New Artists' Association of Munich (Age: 42 years old, Period: 1909, Location: Munich, Germany)
1911	Formation of the Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter, Age: 44 years old, Period: 1911–1914, Location: Munich, Germany) Publication of "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" (Age: 44 years old, Period: 1911, Location: Munich, Germany)
1914	World War I (Age: 47 years old, Period: 1914–1918, Location: Western Front, Belgium and France) Return to Moscow due to World War I (Age: 47 years old, Period: 1914, Location: From Germany to Moscow, Russia)
1917	Russian Civil War (Age: 50 years old, Period: 1917–1922, Location: Russian Empire / Various parts of Russia) Russian Revolution (Age: 50 years old, Period: 1917, Location: Russian Empire, mainly Petrograd and Moscow) Participation in arts administration after the Russian Revolution (Age: 50 years old, Period: 1917–1921, Location: Moscow, Russia) Marriage (Wassily Kandinsky, Nina Nikolaevna Andreevskaya, Age: 50 years old, Period: February 11, 1917, Location: Moscow, Russia)
1920	Re-emigration to Germany (Age: 53 years old, Period: 1920–1921, Location: From Moscow to Berlin, Germany)
1924	Formation of the Blue Four (Die Blaue Vier, Age: 57 years old, Period: 1924, Location: Weimar and Dessau, Germany)
1928	Acquisition of German citizenship (Age: 61 years old, Period: 1928, Location: Germany)
1933	Closure of the Bauhaus (Age: 66 years old, Period: 1933, Location: Berlin, Germany) Emigration to France (Age: 66 years old, Period: 1933, Location: From Germany to France, ultimately Neuilly-sur-Seine)
1934	Later years of creation in France (Age: 67 years old, Period: 1934–1944, Location: Neuilly-sur-Seine, France)
1937	Confiscation of works due to "Degenerate Art" (Age: 70 years old, Period: 1937, Location: Various locations in Germany, especially Munich)
1939	Acquisition of French citizenship (Age: 72 years old, Period: 1939, Location: France)
1944	Death of Wassily Kandinsky (Age: 77 years old, Period: December 13, 1944)

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Nazi Germany	Adolf Hitler Paul von Hindenburg Hermann Göring Joseph Goebbels Heinrich Himmler Rudolf Hess Martin Ludwig Bormann Joachim von Ribbentrop Albert Speer Hermann Wilhelm Göring Paul Joseph Goebbels
Weimar Republic	Friedrich Ebert Gustav Stresemann Wilhelm Marx Heinrich Brüning Hermann Müller Friedrich Naumann Matthias Erzberger Walther Rathenau
German Anti-Nazis	Dietrich Bonhoeffer Claus Philipp Maria Justinian Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg Hans Oster Ludwig Beck Carl Friedrich Goerdeler Erwin von Witzleben Hans Scholl Sophie Scholl Alexander Schmorell Christoph Probst
Warsaw Ghetto	Mordechai Anielewicz Marek Edelman Tuvia Bielski Abba Kovner Henryk Goldszmit Emanuel Ringelblum
Arts & Music	Pablo Picasso Paul Klee Wassily Kandinsky Käthe Schmidt Oskar Kokoschka Egon Schiele Arnold Schoenberg Alban Berg Anton Webern

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