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His father, vasili silvesterovich kandinsky, was a successful russian businessman, his mother was a homemaker. Wassily kandinsky 18661944, whose works are contained in this book, not only practised art but also wrote on it extensively. Books concerning the spiritual in art 1910 in this remarkable book, anticipating the spiritual turningpoint kandinsky reflects on his understanding of progress in this direction. Project gutenberg offers 61,799 free ebooks to download. An early marriage to a cousin had been dissolved in 1910 after a long period of separation, and in 1917 he married a moscow woman, nina andreevskaya, whom he had met the.
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