Laban e kandinsky biography

Russian painter and art theorist (1866–1944)

"Kandinsky" redirects here.

For other uses, see Kandinsky (disambiguation).

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Wassilyevich and the family name is Kandinsky.

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky^[a] (16 December [O.S.

The essay deals with Rudolf Laban's mostly unrealized film scripts, dating to the s and s.

Interested in both the synthesis of the arts and the multi-sensorial experience, synaesthesia, Kandinsky could not miss dance out of his studies.

Laban was born December 15, , in Bratislava, the oldest of three children and the only boy.

In Kandinsky was invited to join Bauhaus by Walter Gropius and travelled to Weimar.

Rather than concentrating on Laban as an individual, therefore, this dissertation explores the surprising staying power of his notation system.

4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art. Born in Moscow, he spent his childhood in Odessa, where he graduated from Odessa Art School.

He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics.

As a modernist artist and researcher Rudolf Laban initiated a heritage of movement studies focussed on investigating the artistic expression of human beings.

Successful in his profession, he was offered a professorship (chair of Roman Law) at the University of Dorpat (today Tartu, Estonia). Kandinsky began painting studies (life-drawing, sketching and anatomy) at the age of 30.

In 1896, Kandinsky settled in Munich, studying first at Anton Ažbe's private