The Blaue Reiter

Riders on the storm: The charge of 20th century expressionismAlthough it only lasted three turbulent years, the afterburn of the Blaue Reiter (1911 1914) movement exerted a tremendous influence on the development of modern European art. Named after a Kandinsky painting, The Blue Rider, this loose band of artists, grouped around Russian emigre Wassily Kandinsky and German painter Franz Marc, sought to reject establishment standards and charge into a new artistic unknown.Articulating spiritual val