My Kandinsky Story

Wasley Kandinsky was born in Moscow, Russia on December 16 1866.
His mother was a homemaker and his father was a tea merchant.

synaesthesia cognate
ability
Wasley
exhibited
early age
special gift
hair colour
see sounds

From an early age Wasley exhibited a special gift called synaesthesia cognate.
This gift gave him the ability to hear colour and see sounds.

Kandinsky
Professor
Study

Kandinsky studied economics and laws at University of Moscow before he became a professor. Three years later he moved to Munich,Germany and started to study about art. Initially Kandinsky was interested in creating sketches of human bodies.

Munich,Germany
study art
Initially
Human bodies
Sketches
interested
creating

Once the First World War started Kandinsky moved from Germany to Switzerland and lastly he returned back to his homeland Moscow.He used colours and continued creating impressionist artworks.

Switzerland
Homeland
Moscow
First World War
Germany
Kandinsky
Continued
Colours
Returned/moved
Artwork
Impressionist
Creating

After the the First World War Kandinsky went back to Germany and started drawing abstract art, straight lines,curve,circles and all sorts of shapes.


Kandinsky traveled for the last time to France in 1933 when the Nazis took over his art school. Wassily lived there until he died in 1944.