The Early Years Of Kandinsky's Life Wassily Kandinsky was born on December 4, 1866 in Moscow. His father was a successful tea merchant named 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 …showed first 75 words of 1370 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1370 total…number of Africans living in France at the time. Kandinsky passed from this world on December 13, 1944, at the age of 78. He had lived a long, full life, but never got to see the end of the war. It was probably better that he did not, since he never found out about the fate of his confiscated paintings before he died, and so he died thinking that they were being stored somewhere until after the war.