Wassily Kandinsky

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Cossacks

1910-11
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Wassily Kandinsky: Cossacks

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Cossacks represents a transition in Kandinsky’s work when he was moving towards full abstraction work. As an ‘objective abstraction’, the painting still contains some representational parts, but the expressive arrangement of colours and lines is the most important element of the work. In this work, part of Tate's collection, the representational parts include two Cossacks (Russian cavalrymen) on horseback fighting with sabres at the top left, three more Cossacks bottom right, and a castle on a hill and a party of birds in flight at the top right.
  • Artist Wassily Kandinsky
  • Artwork Cossacks
  • Exhibition Aftermath
  • Image size 94.6 x 130.2 cm
  • Date of work 1910-11
  • Credit Oil paint on canvas,  94.6 x 130.2 cm
Wassily Kandinsky (1866– 1944) was a Russian born painter, teacher and theorist. He was a pioneer of abstract art, and a central figure in Expressionism. After studying law at Moscow University, in 1896 he retrained as an artist at the Anton Ažbé School in Munich. After founding the independent Phalanx School, he spent 1904–8 travelling with the artist Gabriele Münter. Returning to Munich, they joined Alexej Jawlensky and Marianne Werefkin in Murnau, engaging with local landscape, religious painting and architecture, and vernacular arts and crafts. In 1909 Kandinsky co-founded the NKVM artist group while working on his book, Concerning the Spiritual in Art. After meeting Franz Marc in 1911, Kandinsky concentrated on The Blue Rider (DBR) group and publication. At the outbreak of WWI Kandinsky moved to Switzerland, but soon separated from Münter and returned to Moscow, later taking up a teaching position at the Bauhaus. When the Nazis rose to power, he emigrated to France. He died in 1944, a few months after the liberation of Paris.
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