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OCR: LIFE Kandinsky, Wassily (1866-1944). Russian painter, a pioneer of abstract art. Born in Moscow, he traveled widely, settling in Munich in 1896. Between 1910 and 1914 he produced the series "Improvisations" and "Compositions," the first known examples of purely abstract work in 20th-century art. He was an originator of the Blaue Reiter movement from 1911-12. From 1921 he taught at the Bauhaus school of design. He moved to Paris in 1933, becoming a French citizen. Kandinsky originally experimented with Post-Impressionist styles and Fauvism. His highly colored works had few imitators, but his theories on composition, published in "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" (1912), were taken up by the abstractionists. Kandinsk