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Of the 16 years that I have been living in Germany, I have given myself entirely to the German art world. How am I now suddenly supposed to feel myself a foreigner?

— Wassily Kandinsky

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because of the outbreak of World War 1. Kandinsky had to leave Germany because of his Russian nationality

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