Wassily Kandinsky (Russian: Василий Кандинский; 16 December 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian artist and one of the most famous artists of the 20th century. His discoveries in the field of abstract art made him one of the most important innovators and modernists in modern art. In both cases, as an artist and a theoretical researcher, he played a pivotal and very important role in the development of abstract art. He is credited with the Kandinsky Prize for the Arts, and one of his most famous designs is the Kandinsky Chair, which took on the character of the Bauhaus school in Germany. Kandinsky is considered one of the greatest influences on the art movement among his generation, and in the 20th century. As one of the first pioneers of the non-figurative or non-representational principle, in other words, the principle of "pure abstraction". The artist Kandinsky is also considered the pavement for the expressionist-abstract school, which became the dominant and prevailing school of painting from that time - and the period of World War II and beyond. His friends called him “the prince of the spirit” and “the knight”.
Career

In his early youth, Kandinsky worked for a company that undertook census work in rural and agricultural districts. He completed his task of preparing a study and census of the peasants in Voogda district with great success, which qualified him to become a member of the management board of that company. This success helped him to continue his academic studies. In 1892, he passed the final exams at the Faculty of Law without much difficulty. At that very time, he met and married Anna Tchmyakin, who was studying at the external department of the same university.

At the end of the nineteenth century, Kandinsky faced two choices: either to work as a professor at the University of Tartu, or to be a painter who did not hesitate to do anything, relying only on his feeling for this great art and his faith in it. His discovery of the Parisian Impressionist Exhibition held in Moscow at that time, and especially his great influence on one of the paintings of the great Impressionist artist Claude Monet "Haystack", and listening to Wagner's music at the Russian Imperial Theater, had a great impact on his life decision. He leaned towards studying the visual arts without any hesitation or delay, when he was about thirty years old.

Kandinsky immigrated to Germany in 1896 to settle in Munich, where he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts. He then returned to Moscow at the beginning of World War I in 1914.

Kandinsky studied art at the Malinx School of Art, which was founded at that time in Munich, and one of his students at that time was Gabriel Muntz, who became his companion in art for many years. He completed his drawings and paintings in the naturalistic style. He held his first exhibition of his works in 1902 in a separate exhibition, and they were wood carvings. In 1904 he began a general artistic and exploration trip to Italy, Holland, North Africa, and then returned to Russia for a short visit. Afterwards he held an exhibition of his works at the "Salon d'automne" in Paris. In the period 1904-1909 Kandinsky was elected president of an artistic group founded at the time and called the "Munich Modern Group - NKVM" The beginning of the change and development of the nature of painting during a short trip to Paris in 1909. In Munich, Kandinsky relied on simplification. He painted many graphic works and line designs using "woodblock printing", although he was surrounded by an artistic movement characterized by "conservatism, bourgeois outlook and narrow-mindedness", as he put it. He also saw that there was a semi-academic submission dominating it. Among what he accomplished in those days using woodblock printing was the two-color painting "The Singer" (1903); it was characterized by those vertical longitudinal lines that resembled the lines of musical notes. This was due to his deep belief in the connection between music and painting. He interpreted this connection as occurring through a relationship of observation between the recipient and the painting with its colors and overall formation. It is considered The painting "The Singer" is a documentary acknowledgment of this absolute faith. In 1911, Kandinsky and his friend Franz Marc founded a new artistic movement known as the "Blue Rider" group; the name goes back to the fact that they both loved to use the color blue in their works, in addition to Marc's passion for painting horses and Kandinsky's passion for painting riders. In 1921, he joined the Bauhaus school of art and architecture in Germany until it was closed by the Nazis in 1933, after which he moved to France to live the rest of his life there after becoming a French citizen in 1939 and died there in 1944.