Kandinsky took up painting at 30.
In 1896 he gave up a promising career teaching law and economics and moved to Munich; some fifteen years later he was among the creators of abstract art.
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- 1895 In 1895 Popov demonstrated a radio receiver in St Petersburg, and the Lumière brothers held the first paid film screening in Paris.
- 1895 'I have seen my death!' cried Röntgen's wife when she saw the first X-ray of her hand about six weeks after he discovered the rays.
- 1895 · 1896 Audiences did not flee the Lumières' Arrival of a Train; it is most likely an urban legend.
- 1896 There were no gold medals at the first modern Olympics in 1896.
- 1896 Five weeks after Ethiopia routed an Italian army at Adwa, the first modern Olympics opened in Athens.
- 1896 · 1935 Einstein never failed maths: he had mastered calculus before he was 15.