When did Wassily Kandinsky become a French citizen?

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Wassily Kandinsky: Painting with Green Center — Wassily Kandinsky *Painting with Green Center*, oil on canvas by Wassily Kandinsky, 1913; in the Art Institute of Chicago.

Wassily Kandinsky became a naturalized French citizen in 1939. He had previously been a German citizen since 1928 but immigrated to Paris in 1933 after the Nazis forced the closure of the Bauhaus school.12