Where can you see Wassily Kandinsky in Venice?

At the Peggy Guggenheim Collection: Landscape with Red Spots, No. 2 and Upward. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

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

Landscape with Red Spots, No. 2, of 1913, at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Patches of red, blue and yellow over a landscape of hills and a church, at the edge of abstraction.

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?

One of the first painters of purely abstract pictures. Taught at the Bauhaus for eleven years. The Guggenheim owns more than 150 of his works. Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter, of Abstract art.

Painter, 1866 to 1944

Wassily Kandinsky

Kandinsky's Landscape with Red Spots, No. 2, of 1913, is a landscape dissolving into colour, painted in the months he was leaving the visible world behind. It is in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection with his later Upward.

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

Where to see Wassily Kandinsky in Venice

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

Peggy Guggenheim Collection2 works

Landscape with Red Spots, No. 2
1913
Patches of red, blue and yellow over a landscape of hills and a church, at the edge of abstraction.
Upward
1929
A light, balanced figure of lines and forms, from his years teaching at the Bauhaus.

The life of Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky was born in Moscow in 1866 and was a teacher of law before he gave it up at thirty to study painting in Munich. About 1911 he began to paint pictures with no subject at all, among the first in Europe, and wrote a book to explain why colour and form could move the spirit as music does. He taught at the Bauhaus from 1922 until the Nazis closed it, and died in France.

The German painter Hilla Rebay, who advised Guggenheim, believed that this art was the future, and the collection she built for him opened to the public in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting. Twenty years later it moved into the building Frank Lloyd Wright designed for it.

What to know

One of the first painters of purely abstract pictures
Taught at the Bauhaus for eleven years
The Guggenheim owns more than 150 of his works

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