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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 84. Chapters: Bauhaus, Herbert Bayer, Walter Gropius, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Lyonel Feininger, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Harry Seidler, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Junkers, Arieh Sharon, Marcel Breuer, Gunta Stolzl, White City, Arthur Korn, Josef Albers, Georg Muche, Dessau-Worlitz Garden Realm, Bauhaus in Budapest, Johannes Itten, Anni Albers, Oskar Schlemmer, Modern typography, Marguerite Wildenhain, Gerhard Marcks, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Nikolay Diulgheroff, Pedagogical Sketchbook, Marianne Brandt, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, Hannes Meyer, Max Bill, Frans Wildenhain, Mart Stam, Bertrand Goldberg, Werner Drewes, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Deutscher Werkbund, Dessau-Rosslau, Bauhaus Center, Martinus Adrianus Stam, Paul Greifzu Stadium, Otto Lindig, Triadisches Ballett, Fred Forbat, Avgust ernigoj, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Paul Schweikher, Thilo Maatsch, Bauhaus Archive, Otto Hofmann, Walter Peterhans, Dessau Institute of Architecture, Adolf Meyer, Erwin Ratz, Joost Schmidt, Bauhaus Museum, Weimar, Alfred Arndt, Franz Ehrlich, Cantilever chair. Excerpt: Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (English pronunciation: Russian: , Vasilij Vasil'evi Kandinskij; 16 December 1866 - 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter, and art theorist. He is credited with painting of the first purely abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow and chose to study law and economics. Quite successful in his profession-he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat-he started painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30. In 1896, he settled in Munich and studied first in the private school of Anton A be and then at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich. He went back to Moscow in 1914, after World War I started. He was unsympathetic to the official th..
