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Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter, printmaker and art theorist. One of the most famous 20th-century artists, he is credited with painting the first modern abstract works. A Nazi raid on the Bauhaus in the 1930s resulted in the destruction of Kandinsky's first three of his famous musically-inspired Compositions. They were displayed in the State-sponsored exhibit "Degenerate Art" then destroyed along with works by Paul Klee, Franz Marc and other modern artists.
