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The palace serves as a major art gallery with a focus on modern artists such as Picasso, Chagall, Warhol, Pollock, and Kandinsky....
Wassily Kandinsky
(1866-1944)
Who Was Wassily Kandinsky?
Wassily Kandinsky took up the study of art in earnest at age 30, moving to Munich to study drawing and painting.
There is also a gallery dedicated to works by foreign artists like Kandinsky, Klee, and Picasso.
A trained musician, Kandinsky approached color with a musician’s sensibility. An obsession with Monet led him to explore his own creative concepts of color on canvas, which were sometimes controversial among his contemporaries and critics, but Kandinsky emerged as a respected leader of the abstract art movement in the early 20th century.
Early Life
Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow on December 4, 1866 (December 16 by the Gregorian calendar), to musical parents Lidia Ticheeva and Vasily Silvestrovich Kandinsky, a tea merchant.
When Kandinsky was about 5 years old, his parents divorced, and he moved to Odessa to live with an aunt, where he learned to play the piano and cello in grammar school, as well as study drawing with a coach. Even as a boy he had an intimate experience with art; the works of his chil