Kandinsky and O'Keeffe: Pioneers of Abstraction

Kandinsky in 1936
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), one of the pioneers of abstract painting, is the subject of a retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The exhibition follows him through a life that took Kandinsky from his native Russia to Germany as a young artist, back to Russia just before and after the revolution, then to Germany again to spend years teaching at the Bauhaus, and, after Adolf Hitler came to power, to a final exile in Paris.

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