Wassily Kandinsky: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Will Grohmann, Wassily Kandinsky: Life and Work (1959), is a sympathetic biography by a friend of the artist. Hans K. Roethel and Jean K. Benjamin, Kandinsky (1979), is an illustrated treatment of his work, while Kandinsky: Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil-paintings, 2 vol. (1982–84), is a comprehensive reference work. Peg Weiss, Kandinsky in Munich: The Formative Jugendstil Years (1979), studies the influences in pre-World War I Munich. Rose-Carol Washton Long, Kandinsky: The Development of an Abstract Style (1980), examines his subjects and meanings.

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Invalidated site: The Westport Library - Wassily Kandinsky: About. Oct 09, 2026
Add new Web site: MoMA - Vasily Kandinsky. Jun 03, 2026
Add new Web site: ABC listen - The Art Show - Kandinsky: the visionary artist 'brought back down to earth'. Feb 26, 2026
Anniversary information added. Dec 12, 2025
Anniversary information added. Dec 09, 2025
Add new Web site: CORE - Nothing to Do with Politics, Only Art? On Wassily Kandinsky's Work in Paris, from 1934 until the Outbreak of the War (PDF). Sep 06, 2025
Add new Web site: Yale University Press - Wassily Kandinsky and the Abstract. Apr 16, 2025
Questions and answers added. Feb 20, 2025
Add new Web site: The Westport Library - Wassily Kandinsky: About. Nov 22, 2024
Add new Web site: San Jos? State University - The Life and Works of Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky. Sep 28, 2024
Add new Web site: The Guardian - Wassily Kandinsky: the painter of sound and vision. Aug 14, 2024
Add new Web site: NPR - The Life and Work of Wassily Kandinsky. Apr 26, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Mar 18, 2024
Add new Web site: Artnet - Wassily Kandinsky. Feb 27, 2024
Add new Web site: Art in Context - Wassily Kandinsky - A Portrait of Kandinsky the Artist. Jan 20, 2024
Media added. Nov 16, 2021
Corrected display issue. Feb 12, 2021
Deleted photograph. Sep 18, 2018
Add new Web site: Art Encyclopedia - Biography of Wassily Kandinsky. May 23, 2018
Add new Web site: Guggenheim - Biography of Vasily Kandinsky. Mar 14, 2017
Added cross-references. Dec 21, 2016
Add new Web site: RT Russiapedia - Biography of Vassily Kandinsky. Mar 17, 2014
Add new Web site: The Art Story - Biography of Wassily Kandinsky. Mar 17, 2014
Add new Web site: The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Biography of Vasily Kandinsky. Aug 14, 2013
Add new Web site: Making Art Fun! - Art Library - Biography of Wassily Kandinsky. Aug 14, 2013
Add new Web site: TATE - Biography of Wassily Kandinsky. Aug 14, 2013
Add new Web site: Olga's Gallery - Biography of Wassily Kandinsky. Aug 14, 2013
Media added. Feb 08, 2012
Added new Web site: Art on Glyph.com - Kandinsky: Compositions. Feb 07, 2008
Added new Web site: Art on Glyph.com - Kandinsky: Compositions. Feb 07, 2008
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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