Bidspirit auction | Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944): A Revolution

Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944): A Revolution in Painting by Hajo Duchting - Cologne: Taschen, 2001. 96 pp., ill., 23.6 by 18.9 cm The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of twentieth-century art. Nowadays he is regarded as the founder of abstract art and is, moreover, the chief theoretician of this type of painting. Hajo Duchting, born in 1949, studied art history, archaeology and philosophy in Munich where he took his doctorate in 1981.