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He may just look like some man from the 1800's, but there is more than what meets the eye when it comes to this man.  On December 16, 1866, an influential Russian artist & theorist was born.  He was credited for his purely abstract artworks.  Born in Moscow, he had spent his childhood in Odessa.  Later on, he had attended school at the University of Moscow and study law & economics.  Still have no idea who this man may be?
Well his name is Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky.  He had called his devotion to inner beauty, fervor of spirits, and spiritual desires. He had married his cousin, Anna Chimyakina in 1892. In 1903, he divorced her.  In the 1916, Kandinsky met Nina Andreevskaya. He married her in February, 1917. Then from 1922 till 1933, he taught at the Bauhaus school of art & architecture in Germany until the Nazi closed it.

He founded the New Artists Association of Munich. He liked creating many abstract glass paintings based on musical elements.  He published another book on Spirituality, relating to art, and he wrote several plays and poems.  He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1944.
His is some of his art below. 

Compostition VIII
By: Wassily Kandinsky

Composition VII
1913
By: Wassily Kandinsky

Munich-Schwabing with the Church of Saint Ursula
1908
By: Wassily Kandinsky

Quotes:
"The more frightening the world becomes... the more art becomes abstract." ~Wassily Kandinsky
"Objects damage pictures." ~Wassily Kandinsky


Sources: 
http://www.wassilykandinsky.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Kandinsky
http://painting.about.com/library/biographies/blartistquoteskandinsky.htm