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Vassily Kandinsky:
- Balancement -- 1000 pcs, Vassily Kandinsky
- Courbe Dominante -- 1500 pcs, Vassily Kandinsky
- Im Blau 1925 -- 2000 pcs, Vassily Kandinsky
- Standhaftes Grun -- 1000 pcs, Vassily Kandinsky
- Untitled 1923 -- 2000 pcs, Vassily Kandinsky
- Yellow, Red, Blue -- 1000 pcs, Vassily Kandinsky
Vassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866 to a merchant family. He remained a lawyer who merely dabbled in art until age 30, when a nervous breakdown propelled him into his true vocation in the arts. It also propelled him out of Russia and into cultural centres like Munich and Paris. But while he was lucky enough to escape the turmoil of his native Russia, he was not so lucky in his adopted home. He became a German citizen in 1928, then was forced to flee the Nazis in 1933. Kandinsky's art was seized by the fascists as "degenerate art" and dozens of works were destroyed in the purges which followed. He died in France in 1944. Because his name is transliterated from Russian cyrillic characters, it can appear as "Vassily Kandinsky" (English) or "Wassily Kandinski" (German) or some mixture of the two (Wassily Kandinsky, Vasilij Kandinskij, …).
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