Avant-garde painter of Russian origin (1866-1944). Wassily Kandinsky was born on 22 November 1866 in what is now the Russian Federation. Wassily Kandinsky is remembered as a painter, university teacher and art theorist, a citizen of the Russian Empire and the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. Notable works include “Composition VII”. Positions held included director.
Before and after
- September 1866Construction of Moscow Conservatory
- 21 September 1866Birth of H. G. Wells
- 12 October 1866Birth of Ramsay MacDonald
- 12 November 1866Birth of Sun Yat-sen
- 22 November 1866Birth of Wassily Kandinsky
- 1867Rise of Deobandi
- 1867Publication of Capital: A Critique of Political Economy
- 1867Dynamite
- 1867Joseph Lister introduces antiseptic surgery
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