Vassily Kandinsky

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This paper explains why the author believes that artist Vassily Kandinsky, despite being Russian by birth and nationality, deserves to be considered a true German Expressionist.

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"Kandinsky lived and painted in Munich at a time when German society, and in fact the world, was greatly changing, during the run-up to World War I. Even before that war, German Expressionist painters had endeavored, based on their new theories of painting, which sought to capture within art, elements of real life, as well as abstractness and spirituality , to now paint not so much within a vacuum of pure art, but rather, to instead artistically express (by allowing their essences to flow, from within the artist, onto a canvas) influences derived from nature; music; architecture; sculpture, and from spirituality and philosophy, within their art as well. As Kandinsky's fellow German Expressionist Karl Jakob Hirsch stated: 'This is the beginning! In our hearts we were ready to throw everything away-the old fashioned ideas, the junk!' "

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