title: Kandinsky's first abstract watercolor
Kandinsky Prize
Kandinsky (disambiguation)
Paul Klee
Olivia Kapoor
Wassily Kandinsky
Kandinsky (crater)
Galka Scheyer
Klänge
George Embiricos
sentences: Wassily Kandinsky's first abstract watercolor, painted in 1910, is one of the first artworks to emerge from the representational tradition of Western European painting entirely, shedding references to well known forms, conventions of material representation and all narrative allusions.
 The watercolor is the first extant entry in Wassily Kandinsky's parallel series of abstract "Compositions" and "Improvisations" that began to emerge during his Blue Rider Period.
The Kandinsky Prize, named after Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky is an award sponsored by the Deutsche Bank AG and the Art Chronika Culture Foundation.
 It was organized in hopes of developing Russian contemporary art, and to reinforce the status of Russian art within the world.
 In total, 55,000 euros are awarded to the artists.
Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist.
Paul Klee (] ; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-German artist.
 His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism.
 Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored color theory, writing about it extensively; his lectures "Writings on Form and Design Theory" ("Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre"), published in English as the "Paul Klee Notebooks", are held to be as important for modern art as Leonardo da Vinci's "A Treatise on Painting" for the Renaissance.
 He and his colleague, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture.
 His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.
Olivia Kapoor is best known as one of the pioneering Visionary Artists within the Inter-Dimensional Art Movement.
 She is an American painter who has exhibited and showcased her work in Paris, London, Amsterdam, New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, Toronto, and Bologna.
Following the teachings of noted 19th and early 20th century faculty from The Bauhaus Modernist Art School, Kapoor continues to examine Wassily Kandinsky’s, Josef Albers’, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s, Paul Klee’s, and Johannes Itten’s exploration of the relationship of art, technology, and the universe.
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky ( ; Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Канди́нский , "Vasiliy Vasil’yevich Kandinskiy", ] ; 4 December (16 December by the Gregorian calendar) 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist.
Kandinsky is a deep crater on Mercury, located near the planet's south pole.
 It is named for painter Wassily Kandinsky.
 It is possible that the crater contains ice, making it the very first potential sighting of water on Mercury.
Galka Scheyer (born Emilie Esther Scheyer, 15 April 1889, Braunschweig – 13 December 1945, Los Angeles) was a German-American painter, art dealer, art collector, and teacher.
 She was the founder of the "Blue Four," an artist's group that consisted of Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Alexej Jawlensky.
Klänge (German; "Sounds") is a book by the Russian expressionist artist Wassily Kandinsky.
 Published in an edition of 345 in Munich in late 1912, the work is a famous early example of an artist's book, containing both poems and woodcuts by the artist, forming two parallel strands, each involving a loose progression.
 One of three seminal books that Kandinsky published between 1911 and 1912 - the other two being "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" and "Der Blaue Reiter Almanac" that he edited with Franz Marc - "Klänge" was to have a direct and lasting influence on Expressionism, Dada and Russian Futurism.
George Embiricos (Greek: Γεώργιος Α.
 Εμπειρίκος , "Andreas A. Empeirikos"; 1920–2011) was a Greek shipping magnate, and art collector, who owned several masterpieces by El Greco, Goya, Cézanne, Kandinsky, Picasso, van Gogh and Bacon, in his home in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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 Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. 

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 Paul Klee (] ; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-German artist.
 His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism.
 Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored color theory, writing about it extensively; his lectures "Writings on Form and Design Theory" ("Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre"), published in English as the "Paul Klee Notebooks", are held to be as important for modern art as Leonardo da Vinci's "A Treatise on Painting" for the Renaissance.
 He and his colleague, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture.
 His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality. 

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 Olivia Kapoor is best known as one of the pioneering Visionary Artists within the Inter-Dimensional Art Movement.
 She is an American painter who has exhibited and showcased her work in Paris, London, Amsterdam, New York City, Los Angeles, Miami, Toronto, and Bologna.
Following the teachings of noted 19th and early 20th century faculty from The Bauhaus Modernist Art School, Kapoor continues to examine Wassily Kandinsky’s, Josef Albers’, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s, Paul Klee’s, and Johannes Itten’s exploration of the relationship of art, technology, and the universe. 

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 Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky ( ; Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Канди́нский , "Vasiliy Vasil’yevich Kandinskiy", ] ; 4 December (16 December by the Gregorian calendar) 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. 

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 Kandinsky is a deep crater on Mercury, located near the planet's south pole.
 It is named for painter Wassily Kandinsky.
 It is possible that the crater contains ice, making it the very first potential sighting of water on Mercury. 

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 Galka Scheyer (born Emilie Esther Scheyer, 15 April 1889, Braunschweig – 13 December 1945, Los Angeles) was a German-American painter, art dealer, art collector, and teacher.
 She was the founder of the "Blue Four," an artist's group that consisted of Lyonel Feininger, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Alexej Jawlensky. 

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 Klänge (German; "Sounds") is a book by the Russian expressionist artist Wassily Kandinsky.
 Published in an edition of 345 in Munich in late 1912, the work is a famous early example of an artist's book, containing both poems and woodcuts by the artist, forming two parallel strands, each involving a loose progression.
 One of three seminal books that Kandinsky published between 1911 and 1912 - the other two being "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" and "Der Blaue Reiter Almanac" that he edited with Franz Marc - "Klänge" was to have a direct and lasting influence on Expressionism, Dada and Russian Futurism. 

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 George Embiricos (Greek: Γεώργιος Α.
 Εμπειρίκος , "Andreas A. Empeirikos"; 1920–2011) was a Greek shipping magnate, and art collector, who owned several masterpieces by El Greco, Goya, Cézanne, Kandinsky, Picasso, van Gogh and Bacon, in his home in Lausanne, Switzerland. 

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Answer: Russian