Houses at Murnau
Vasily Kandinsky
1909
Medium
Oil on cardboard
Dimensions
49 × 64 cm (19 1/4 × 25 in.)
Classification
painting
Department
Modern Art
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
129849
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Vasily Kandinsky
**Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944)** was a Russian painter and art theorist widely recognized as one of the pioneers of abstract art in Western painting. Born in Moscow on December 16, 1866, to a tea merchant father and a mother from a noble family with Tatar roots, he initially pursued studies in law and economics before turning to art at age 30. In 1896 he settled in Munich, where he trained first ...