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Blaue Reiter
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) was an artistic movement lasting from 1911 to 1914. Co-founded by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, and joined by other German artists from the Neue Künstlervereinigung München, Der Blaue Reiter was created largely in response to the rejection of one of Kandinsky’s paintings from an exhibition. Along with Die Brucke, founded in 1905, Der Blaue Reiter was fundamental to Expressionism.
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Blaue Reiter
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) was an artistic movement lasting from 1911 to 1914. Co-founded by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, and joined by other German artists from the Neue Künstlervereinigung München, Der Blaue Reiter was created largely in response to the rejection of one of Kandinsky’s paintings from an exhibition. Along with Die Brucke, founded in 1905, Der Blaue Reiter was fundamental to Expressionism.
The artists of Der Blaue Reiter looked to European Medieval Art, Primitivism, Fauvism, Cubism and Rayonism, in many ways heading towards abstraction. Through the use of distorted forms and startling color in particular, the group sought to express spiritual truths through their art. They believed in the promotion of modern art; connection between visual art and music; an intellectual approach to technique; the symbolic and spiritual associations of color; and a spontaneous, intuitive approach to painting. Stylistically however the works of Der Blaue Reiter were not unified. Rather than striving for a unified style or theme, the pieces expressed the inner desires of the different artists in a variety of forms. Thus the art of each member ranged from the sometimes pure abstractions of Wassily Kandinsky to the romantic imagery of Franz Marc.
Der Blaue Reiter was dispersed as a group in 1914 by the outbreak of World War I, during which both Franz Marc and August Macke were killed in combat. In 1923 Kandinsky, Feinginer, Klee and Alexej von Jawlensky formed Die Blaue Vier (The Blue Four) and exhibited and lectured together worldwide through the 1920s.
Members of Der Blaue Reiter include: Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, August Macke, Paul Klee, Gabriele Münter, Alexej von Jawlensky, Heinrich Campendonk, Albert Bloch, Natalia Goncharova, Marianne von Werefkin, Lyonel Feininger, Arnold Schoenberg and David Burliuk.
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