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The Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), who later lived in Germany and France, is one of the pioneers of 20th-century art. Nowadays he is regarded as the founder of abstract art and is, moreover, the chief theoretician of this type of painting. Together with Franz Marc and others he founded the group of artists known as the "Blane Reiter" in Munich. His art then freed itself more and more from the object, eventually culminating in the First...
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This volume focuses on the history of French painting, presenting a wealth of well-known and lesser-known works of art. Some 400 images illustrate French painting, from its beginnings until the early 20th century, from the school of Fontainebleau to Post-Impressionism and Symbolism.