Kandinsky's rich, trail-blazing work and complex personality have compelled attention ever since the controversy surrounding his first abstract paintings of 1911, when the press labelled him a bluffer and a madman. In his native Russia, the Communists ostracized him as a formalist, while the Nazis exhibited his work as Degenerate Art. Member of the Blaue Reiter and the Bauhaus, close ally of Franz Marc and Paul Klee, Kandinsky influenced virtually...
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