Wassily Kandinsky

German text:
He became the forerunner of abstract art, was a co-founder of the Blauer Reiter, an art theorist and influential teacher at the Bauhaus. When Wassily Kandinsky abandoned his promising career as a lawyer in favor of painting at the age of 30, no one could have guessed that a few years later he would help decisively to determine and revolutionize twentieth-century art