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Kandinsky

American  
[kan-din-skee, kuhn-dyeen-skyee] / kænˈdɪn ski, kʌnˈdyin skyi /

noun

  1. Wassily or Vasili 1866–1944, Russian painter.


Kandinsky British  
/ kanˈdinskij /

noun

  1. Vasili (vaˈsilij). 1866–1944, Russian expressionist painter and theorist, regarded as the first to develop an entirely abstract style: a founder of der Blaue Reiter

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Yet Münter has long been overshadowed by contemporaries like Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, who veered into acerbic expressionism, and Wassily Kandinsky, who migrated toward pure abstraction.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 10, 2026

An exhibition featuring works by Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko, Wassily Kandinsky, and Pablo Picasso has opened at the Beyeler Foundation, where Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone's We are Poems rainbow sculpture sits on the roof.

From BBC • May 11, 2025

A German bank will return a Kandinsky painting to the heirs of a Jewish family that suffered persecution by the Nazis.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2023

Mironov said he had therefore written to Russia's prosecutor general to ask him to investigate Sberbank and whether the content produced by "Kandinsky 2.1" was lawful.

From Reuters • Apr. 26, 2023

The Kandinsky biography she’s reading is facedown beside her silver brush.

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson