The Blue Rider
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The Blue Rider was a sophisticated, intellectual group lead by Kandinsky in Munich, Germany. Their work expresses inner feeling rather than observed nature - "an outward expression of an inner feeling.
The Blue Riders believed that colors, shapes and forms had equivalence with sounds and music, and sought to create color harmonies which would be purifying to the soul.
Blue Rider. Either parent after two hours of "Are we there yet?" Its abstract canvases incorporate colorful horses leaping over mountains, to keep the kids from replaying "Sponge Bob Square Pants" yet again.
Blue Rider(Der Blaue Reiter) An influential group of German Expressionists formed in Munich in 1911 bv Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, August Macke and Franz Marc.
Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter): A group of German artists based in Munich from 1911 to 1914, mostly expressionist painters, but their works ranged from pure abstraction to romantic imagery, attempting to express spiritual truths.
Blue Rider - See Der Blaue Reiter.
bluing - Coloring the surface of metal by applying concentrated heat from a blowtorch or oxyacetylene torch. Oxidation gives the metal a blue tinge. Also spelled blueing.
The Blue Rider (1911-1914)
See also Der Blaue Reiter
The paintings of this period are composed of large and very expressive colored masses evaluated independently from forms and lines which serve no longer to delimit them but are superimposed ...
Blue Rider 1903
Riding Couple 1916
Though Kandinsky was born in Russia, he spent most of his creative years in Germany, and would head up the second German Expressionist group, known as "Der Blau Reiter".
(German"The Blue Rider")
organization of artists based in Germany that contributed greatly to the development of abstract art.
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) was a group of artists from the Neue Künstlervereinigung München in Munich, Germany.
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Famous Painters Associated with the Der Blaue Reiter Movement
Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956) American, Cubist ...
"Transcendentalism was the common interest of the painters who formed the Expressionist group known as Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) in 1910.
While the artists of Die Brucke (The Bridge) looked at the immediate everyday world of modern society, the artists of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) searched for a universal spirituality that would save all mankind from the coming catastrophe.
Der Blaue Reiter [The Blue Rider].
A group formed by Wassily Kandinsky in 1911 dedicated to the exhibition of advanced art from all over Europe and Russia.
(German for "The Blue Rider")
Der Blaue Reiter was an art movement started in Europe just after the turn of the century, led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc.
The other German Expressionist group, Der Blaue Reiter, meaning The Blue Rider, began in Munich in 1911 and lasted until 1913. Der Blaue Reiter took its name from a painting by Kandinsky title "Le cavalier bleu.
Wassily Kandinsky 'Der Blaue Reiter' (The Blue Rider) 1903
The development of German Expressionism is covered on the Expressionism page, which mentions that in addition to Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's Die Brucke (The Bridge) group, ...
Established in December 1911 by Kandinsky, Marc and Gabriele Münter their first show was entitled 'First Exhibition by the Editorial Board of the Blue Rider' and was launched to coincide with the last show by the NKV in the same gallery in Munich.
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider)
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) was not exactly an Expressionist group, more a meeting of diverse talents who contributed to the publication of an almanac 'Der Blaue Reiter' and two exhibitions of the same name.
Influenced by Fauvist painters, the Expressionist movement was dominated by German painters, notably members of Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider), Die Brucke (The Bridge) and Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity).
Contributes seventeen works to the second Blue Rider exhibition at the Galerie Golz. Second visit to Paris from 2-18 April. Meets Delaunay and Le Fauconnier, sees paintings by Matisse, Picasso, Braque, Rousseau, Derain, Vlaminck, etc.
1911 - 1914 Germany - german for blue rider - group of painters inspired from expressionism , ...
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) was a group of Expressionist artists led by Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky. One of the group's primary goals was to use art to express spirituality.
His most famous painting The Blue Rider was an expression of the free spirit and individualism. It represented the Blue Rider Group and its break from conformity.
The name, meaning "blue rider", was taken from the name of a painting by Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944), and was also the title of the almanac and the exhibition on which he collaboration with others.
Associated with the German Expressionist group The Blue Rider, and later with the Dada movement and the Dutch periodical De Stijl, Richter's life work is renowned for spanning much of the 20th-century modern canon.
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The first group of Expressionists, called Die Brucke (The Bridge), was formed in Dresden in 1905, by Ernst Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and Erich Heckel. The other major Expressionist group was called Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider).
This term refers to the movement organized by Vasily Kandinsky in Munich, Germany. Der Blaue Reiter, "The Blue Rider," consisted of a group of nine artists who shared an interest in the power of color.
There are several different and somewhat overlapping groups of Expressionist artists, including Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider"), Die Brücke ("The Bridge"), Die Neue Sachlichkeit ("The New Objectivity") and the Bauhaus School.
After successful avant-garde exhibitions, he founded the influential Munich group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider; 1911-1914), when his paintings became completely abstract.
Wassily Kandinsky, (Russian, 1866-1944), was one of the first creators of pure abstraction in modern painting. After successful avant-garde exhibitions , he founded the influential Munich group Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider; 1911-1914), ...
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