Sankt-Peterburg

Received from: Russia
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: July 2011
Distance: 1082 km
Time of travelling: 15 days

The Russian card presenting oil painting on canvas from the Hermitage museum. Winter of Wassily Kandinsky.

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter, and art theorist. He is credited with painting of the first purely abstract works.