Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 75. Chapters: Herbert Bayer, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Harry Seidler, László Moholy-Nagy, Arieh Sharon, Marcel Breuer, Gunta Stölzl, White City, Arthur Korn, Josef Albers, Georg Muche, Bauhaus in Budapest, Johannes Itten, Anni Albers, Oskar Schlemmer, Modern typography, Marguerite Wildenhain, Gerhard Marcks, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Nikolay Diulgheroff, Pedagogical Sketchbook, Marianne Brandt, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Hannes Meyer, Max Bill, Frans Wildenhain, Mart Stam, Bertrand Goldberg, Werner Drewes, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Deutscher Werkbund, Bauhaus Center, Martinus Adrianus Stam, Otto Lindig, Triadisches Ballett, Fred Forbát, Avgust Cernigoj, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Paul Schweikher, Thilo Maatsch, Bauhaus Archive, Otto Hofmann, Walter Peterhans, Adolf Meyer, Erwin Ratz, Joost Schmidt, Bauhaus Museum, Weimar, Alfred Arndt, Franz Ehrlich, Cantilever chair. Excerpt: Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (; Russian:, Vasilij Vasil'evic Kandinskij, Russian pronunciation:; 16 December 1866 - 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter, and art theorist. He is credited with painting of the first purely abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose to study law and economics. Quite successful in his profession-he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat-he started painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. In 1896, he settled in Munich and studied first in the private school of Anton Azbe and then at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He went back to Moscow in 1914, after World War I started. He was unsympathetic to the official theories on art in Moscow and returned to Germany in 1921. There, he taught at the Bauhaus school of art and architecture from 1922 until the Nazis closed it in 1933. He then moved to France where he lived the rest of his life, and became a French citizen in 1939. He died at Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944. An early period work "Munich-Schwabing with the Church of St. Ursula" (Kandinsky 1908)Kandinsky's creation of purely abstract work followed a long period of development and maturation of intense theoretical thought based on his personal artistic experiences. He called this devotion to inner beauty, fervor of spirit, and deep spiritual desire inner necessity, which was a central aspect of his art. Kandinsky learned from a variety of sources living in Moscow. Later in his life, he would recall being fascinated and unusually stimulated by colour as a child. The fascination with colour symbolism and psychology continued as he grew. In 1889 he was part of an ethnographic research group that travelled to the Vologda region north of Moscow. In Looks on the Past he relates that the houses and churches were decorated with such shimmering colours that, upon entering them, he had the impres