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Why did Wassily Kandinsky leave Germany?

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Wassily Kandinsky had been a German citizen since 1928, but he immigrated to Paris in 1933 when the Nazis forced the Bauhaus to close. His last German picture is the sober Development in Brown; its title probably alludes to the Nazi brown-shirted storm troopers, who regarded his abstract art as “degenerate.” He acquired French citizenship in 1939.