Russian painter, printmaker, stage designer, decorative artist and theorist. A central figure in the development of 20th-century art and specifically in the transition from representational to abstract art, Kandinsky worked in a wide variety of media and was an important teacher and theoretician. He worked mainly outside Russia, but his Russian heritage continued to be an important factor in his development.
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![Vasily Kandinsky. Rock (Membership Card for the New Artists' Association Munich) [Felsen (Mitgliedskarte für die Neue Künstlervereinigung München)]. (1908-1909)](http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/803/w155h170/CRI_114803.jpg)
![Vasily Kandinsky. Rock (Membership Card for the New Artists' Association Munich) [Felsen (Mitgliedskarte für die Neue Künstlervereinigung München)]. (1908-1909)](http://www.moma.org/collection_images/resized/803/w155h170crop/CRI_114803.jpg)