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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 painting was structured around an idea that color and form carried concrete spiritual values. Thus, the move into abstraction resulted partly from radically separating form and color into discrete elements within a painting or applying non-naturalistic color to recognizable objects.
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, organization of artists based in Germany that contributed greatly to the development of abstract art. Neither a movement nor a school with a definite program, Der Blaue Reiter was a loosely knit organization of artists that organized group shows between 1911 and 1914.
Founded in 1911, the Blue Rider was accordingly a cooperative undertaking founded on the principle of diversity and sustained by the artist's unique personalities. In this openness lay its modernity, which is as compelling and contemporary now as it was then.
Using a visual vocabulary of abstract forms and prismatic colors, Blaue Reiter artists explored the spiritual values of art as a counter to [what they saw as] the corruption and materialism of their age. The name, meaning “blue rider,” refers to a key motif in Kandinsky’s work: the horse and rider.
Jan 31, 2024 · Der Blaue Reiter, or the Blue Rider, emerged in 1911, at a time when the world teetered on the precipice of immense change, poised on the brink of World War I. Against this backdrop of societal upheaval, the founders of the Blue Rider movement, including luminaries like Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, August Macke (1887-1914), and Gabriele ...
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.
The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter) was an informal collective of modern expressionist artists who came together in Munich, Germany in 1911. Led by artists including Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter and Franz Marc, the group aimed to explore the emotional and spiritual dimensions of art, emphasising abstraction, symbolism and expressive mark ...
Coedited by Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky, The Blaue Reiter Almanac ranks among the most important documents in the history of twentieth-century art. Re...
