Where can you see Wassily Kandinsky in Amsterdam?

At the Stedelijk Museum: Painting with Houses and Improvisation 33 (Orient I). Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is Wassily Kandinsky's most famous work in Amsterdam?

Painting with Houses, of 1909, at the Stedelijk Museum. A village street and its people in a blaze of colour, the forms already breaking up.

When and where was Wassily Kandinsky born?

On 16 December 1866, at Moscow, Russia. Wassily Kandinsky died on 13 December 1944, at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, aged about 78.

What is Wassily Kandinsky known for?

His Painting with Houses and Improvisation 33 are in the Stedelijk. Painted them in Munich, where he founded the Blue Rider. One of the first painters to make wholly abstract pictures. Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter, of Abstract art.

Painter, 1866 to 1944

Wassily Kandinsky

Two pictures in the Stedelijk, four years apart, show Kandinsky crossing the line: houses still standing in a blaze of colour in 1909, and by 1913 only colour and line, the figures dissolved.

Born: 1866, Moscow, Russia
Died: 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Movement: Abstract art
In Amsterdam: 2 works in 1 museum

Where to see Wassily Kandinsky in Amsterdam

Each work with the museum it hangs in. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

Stedelijk Museum2 works

Painting with Houses
1909
A village street and its people in a blaze of colour, the forms already breaking up.
Improvisation 33 (Orient I)
1913
Patches of bright colour and black lines in which the shapes of figures can still just be made out.

The life of Wassily Kandinsky

In Munich before the First World War Kandinsky moved from landscapes in strong colour to the improvisations and compositions that were among the first abstract paintings.

The Stedelijk shows that passage in two works, from 1909 and 1913.

What to know

His Painting with Houses and Improvisation 33 are in the Stedelijk
Painted them in Munich, where he founded the Blue Rider
One of the first painters to make wholly abstract pictures

Born: 16 December 1866, Moscow, Russia
Died: 13 December 1944, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France

Wassily Kandinsky: common questions

Where can you see Wassily Kandinsky in Amsterdam?: At the Stedelijk Museum: Painting with Houses and Improvisation 33 (Orient I). Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.
What is Wassily Kandinsky's most famous work in Amsterdam?: Painting with Houses, of 1909, at the Stedelijk Museum. A village street and its people in a blaze of colour, the forms already breaking up.
When and where was Wassily Kandinsky born?: On 16 December 1866, at Moscow, Russia. Wassily Kandinsky died on 13 December 1944, at Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, aged about 78.
What is Wassily Kandinsky known for?: His Painting with Houses and Improvisation 33 are in the Stedelijk. Painted them in Munich, where he founded the Blue Rider. One of the first painters to make wholly abstract pictures. Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter, of Abstract art.