Worksheets10 Facts about Kandinsky
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 6mins
When and where was Wassily Kandinsky born?
Berlin
1866
Moscow 1944
Paris 1944
Moscow 1866
Which musical instrument did Kandinsky play?
Cello
Violin
Trumpet
Flute
Kandinsky trained as a Law professor, but what did he do in 1896 that made him decide to give up the Law? Did he ..
Get married and his wife didn't approve of the profession of Law.
Fall ill and spend a long time in hospital.
Go on a tour of Russia and saw Monet's haystack paintings and lots of folk art.
Just get fed up with Law and want to try something else.
Where did Kandinsky go to train as an artist?
Munich Academy of Art in Germany.
The Royal Academy of Art in London
The Paris Conservatoire
The Madrid Academy of Art in Spain
What element of art did Kandinsky begin to experiment with when he moved to Murnau in Germany?
Line
Shape
Texture
Colour
Kandinsky's painting studio was:
Tidy and organised: he painted wearing a suit.
A total mess: He used to splash paint everywhere.
Dark and dingy: full of cobwebs and spiders.
In his bedroom.
What was the Blue Rider?
A fictional character of a man riding a blue horse.
A book that Kandinsky read.
The name given to Kandinsky and a group of artists/friends.
A surfing shop that Kandinsky used.
Kandinsky returned to Russia at the outbreak of war in 1914. What did he begin to do?
Paint huge numbers of paintings.
Give up painting and go back to the Law.
Become a war artist.
Develop theories about Abstract painting and how it was linked with music.
What did Kandinsky teach at the Bauhaus?
Furniture design
Textiles
Colour with psychology and spirituality
Sculpture
When the Bauhaus was shut down by Hitler in 1933, where did Kandinsky go?
Paris - he became a French citizen.
London - he became a British citizen
Back to Russia where he was born.
Madrid, he became a Spanish citizen
What happened when Kandinsky died in Paris in 1944?
They held a huge exhibition of his amazing abstract paintings.
Adolf Hitler bought his paintings because he loved his work.
Nothing happened, he died in obscurity.
They put up a big statue in his memory.
