Wassily Kandinsky (or
Vasily Kandinsky) (
December 16,
1866 -
December 13,
1944) was a
painters and art theorist. He was born in
Russia but lived for many years in
Paris and
Munich. He was one of the founders of the
Blaue Reiter and also taught at the
Bauhaus for some years.
Paintings by Kandinsky have sold for as much as US$15 million.