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Der Blaue Reiter ( The Blue Rider) was a group of artists and a designation by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc for their exhibition and publication activities, in which both artists acted as sole editors in the almanac of the same name (first published in mid-May 1912).
Der Blaue Reiter was a group of abstract painters who sought to express the spiritual value of art through color and form. Learn about their key ideas, artists, and artworks, such as Kandinsky's Composition VII and Marc's The Yellow Cow.
The Blue Rider (German: Der Blaue Reiter) is an oil painting executed in Bavaria in 1903 by the Russian emigré artist Wassily Kandinsky. It is now held in a private collection in Zürich, and shares its name with an almanac and the art movement he would co-found with Franz Marc in the early 1910s.
Der Blaue Reiter was a group of modern artists who explored the emotional and spiritual dimensions of art, using abstraction, symbolism and expressive mark-making. They influenced European modern art with their innovative approach to colour, form and media, and their connections across nations, cultures and media.
August Macke (born January 3, 1887, Meschede, Germany—died September 26, 1914, Perthes-les-Hurlus, France) was a German painter who was a leader of Der Blaue Reiter (“The Blue Rider”), an influential group of Expressionist artists.
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Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) was a German avant-garde group of painters founded by Kandinsky and Marc in 1911. They used abstract forms and colors to express spiritual values and dissolved with World War I.
Perhaps the most important of Kandinsky's paintings from the first decade of the 1900s was The Blue Rider (1903), which shows a small cloaked figure on a speeding horse rushing through a rocky meadow. The rider's cloak is medium blue, which casts a darker-blue shadow.
