Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky painted Russian fairy-tale scenes and Bavarian landscapes in bright colour, then around 1910 to 1913 dissolved them into the Improvisations and Compositions often counted among the first abstract paintings. At the Bauhaus in the 1920s his work became hard-edged and geometric, with circles and lines, and in Paris in the 1930s it filled with soft, biological shapes.