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2 unusual facts about Der Blaue Reiter


Neue Galerie New York

The third floor exhibits various German works from the same era, including art movements such as Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), Die Brücke (The Bridge), and the Bauhaus.

Thannhauser Galleries

Encouraged by Hugo von Tschudi, Thannhauser housed the initial exhibitions of the "Neue Künstlervereinigung München" and "Der Blaue Reiter".


20th-century art

Another German group was Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider"), led by Kandinsky in Munich, who associated the blue rider image with a spiritual non-figurative mystical art of the future.

Murnau am Staffelsee

Gabriele Münter and Wassily Kandinsky of the Blaue Reiter artistic collective lived there for several years.

Neue Künstlervereinigung München

The Neue Künstlervereinigung München e.V (NKVM), ("Munich New Artist's Association", if literally translated from German) formed in 1909 in Munich around Wassily Kandinsky, and prefigured Der Blaue Reiter, the first modernist secession which is regarded as a forerunner and pathfinder for Modern art in 20th-century Germany.


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