Kandinsky: A Life in Letters 1889-1944

What the venerated artist’s letters reveal about his life and art.

Wassily Kandinsky was not only the inventor of abstract painting but its gifted advocate. His letters reveal an artist who thought, communicated, and organized incessantly. He was also straightforward and warm-hearted, so it is especially surprising that a significant portion of his correspondence has remained unpublished until now.

Through astute—and at times witty and polemical—letters that Kandinsky wrote to his colleagu...