A handy new edition of Kandinsky's essay that influenced the development and codification of abstract painting Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) had a profound impact on European Modernism both with respect to art and to art theory. As founder of Der Blaue Reiter--a group including such Expressionist artists as Franz Marc and Gabriele M nter--Kandinsky was responsible for most of the writing in the group's publication, The...