Wassily Kandinsky

He first met Nina Andreevskaya, daughter of Russian General in 1916. The two went into the wedlock the following year in the month of February.

He breathed his last following a cerebrovascular disease in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France on December 13, 1944.

Wassily Kandinsky was born on December 16, 1866 to Lidia Ticheeva and Vasily Silvestrovich Kandinsky in Moscow. His father was employed as a tea merchant.

At the age of five, he faced family crises as his parents separated. He moved to Odessa to live with his aunt. He attained his formal education from a grammar school.

It was during the initial years that he learned the art of playing the piano and cello. He even studied drawing as a coach. These early experiences of color and music played a pivotal role in his life and infused in him the belief that each color had a mysterious life of its own.

Completing his preliminary education, he enrolled himself at the University of Moscow in 1886 to study law. He graduated from the university with an honors degree.

In 1889, he travelled to Vologda province to study their traditional criminal jurisprudence and religion. His experience at the Vologda along with his study of folk art inspired much of his former works.

In 1892, he took up the position at the Moscow Faculty of Law. However, the same did not continue for long as two events changed the course of his life forever – watching an exhibition of French Impressionists in Moscow and hearing Wagner's Lohengrin at the Bolshoi Theatre.

In 1896, he gave up on law and travelled to Munich to make a career out of art. He enrolled at the Munich Academy of Arts. However, much of what he learned was self-directed.

At the beginning of the 19th century, he emerged as a theorist and a painter. Though his earlier works were based on conventional themes and art forms, much of his later work portrayed intense relationship between music and color.

Unlike other painters of the era, his usage of colors on the canvas was extremely different. His palette of colors was used to express emotion rather than provide just a description of nature or subject matter.

He is the founder of pure abstraction and often known as the Father of Abstract Art in the world of art.