Vasily Silestrovich, and his mother was a teacher named Lydia Kandinskaia. From early on in his life, Kandinsky acquired a love for travel. His parents to Florence in 1869 where the young Kandinsky attended Nursery School. When his father's health began deteriorating in 1871, Wassily and his parents moved back to Russia, this time to the smaller town of Odessa. Shortly after returning to Russia, his parents divorced.

During the early years of Kandinsky's life, he discovered a love a color and shape. Kandinsky cherished the watercolors he received from his aunt, and began painting small pictures as early as age five. His parents seem to have been the type of people who would have supported their son's artistic ambitions had he actually had them, but for Kandinsky, painting was only a hobby and not a career.

After Kandinsky's parents divorced, Kandinsky lived with his aunt, Elizaveta Tikheeva. He attended high school and took a few art and music classes in addition to the regular curriculum. The Cello fascinated Kandinsky, and he became quite a good cellist, but like art, Kandinsky did n

In 1909, a renewed Kandinsky returned to Munich after three years of travel. From 1906 to 1908 Kandinsky went through a period of depression, but this ended upon his return to Munich. This new Kandinsky began working on his "Improvisations", clearly more abstract than his previous works. Kandinsky's works during this period were bold and bright and splashed across the entire canvas. Shapes were rounded and indistinct. In 1911, Kandinsky began "compositions" a group of paintings that show a progression in Kandinsky's artistic ability. Black lines define shapes and colors are no longer fuzzy and blended.

In 1933 when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power, the doors of the Bauhaus slammed shut. The artists were fearful of their future, and upon some encouraging, decided to flee the country. Kandinsky fled to Paris, a city he had previously visited and fallen in love with. Kandinsky's paintings, however, did not escape Hitler's grasp. Many were confiscated and destroyed. Half of the "Improvisations" were burned in a bonfire of "degenerate art". The Nazis thought that modernist art and abstraction were un-German and subversive since it strayed so far from the norm of German traditional painting.

In 1911, Kandinsky made mojor changes in both his artistic and personal life. He divorced Ania, although the two really had not been together since Kandinsky moved to Munich. He also formed "The Blaue Reiter" artist group, probably the most famous group to which Kandinsky belonged. All of the modernist biggies were in this group such as Klee and Marc.

In 1928, Kandinsky became a German citizen. He seemed to finally have it all, the way he wanted it: a beautiful and inspirational wife, a good job among friends doing something that he enjoyed, living as a citizen in the country he loved, and most importantly, having finally found his own personal artisitic style. He lived happily in Germany for the next few years, enjoying his "perfect" life, but that soon came to an end.

In 1896, Kandinsky moved to Munich, Germany, leaving his bride behind in Russi

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