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.
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 ...
(German"The Blue Rider")
organization of artists based in Germany that contributed greatly to the development of abstract art.
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Famous Painters Associated with the Der Blaue Reiter Movement
Lyonel Feininger (1871 - 1956) American, Cubist ...
His writing in The Blue Rider Almanac and the treatise "On the Spiritual In Art" (which was released around the same time) were both a defence and promotion of abstract art and an affirmation that all forms of art were equally capable of reaching a ...
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.
Der Blau Reiter ("The Blue Rider")
Wassily Kandinsky
(Russian, 1866-1944)
Blue Rider 1903 ...
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.
In 1911 he founded the Blue Rider Group. Its aim was to create work that expressed inner emotions through colors and lines. Little attention was given to representational forms.
"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.
Following his years in the Blue Rider, he took care to include a representative selection from that period in the special category, ...
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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When Kasimir Malevich originated Suprematism in 1915 he was an established painter having exhibited in the Donkey's Tail and the Der Blaue Reiter ( The Blue Rider) exhibitions of 1912 with cubo-futurist works.
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.
Visited Kandinsky in Munich in 1911, who requested his (Arp's) collaboration on the book "Der blaue Reiter" ("The Blue Rider").
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), ...
 See also: Blue Rider, Expression, Movement, Painting, Der Blaue Reiter
  
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