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    News and Articles on Blaue Reiter



    Name the Early-20th-Century Artist  Apr 15, 2007
    With artists Kandinsky and Klee, Marc formed the secessionist Blaue Reiter group in response to the rejection of one of Kandinsky s paintings from an exhibition. Marc was passionately interested in the art of "primitive" peoples, children, and the mentally ill. (Suite101.com)

    A passion for rare books inspires a journey into past  Oct 7, 2006
    He acquired "Der Blaue Reiter," the manifesto of German Expressionism edited by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc that was published in 1913 with plates by the two painters and other Expressionists. The collector tracked down a magnificent first edition of Kandinsky's "Die Kl?nge" ("Sounds"), a collection of poems in prose written between 1908 and 1912. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)

    Distillations of colour and chaos  Jun 23, 2006
    Look for him, and that horseman, logo of Kandinskys avant-garde Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) group, is everywhere in Cossacks, Improvisation 20, Lyrically, the sketch for the lost Composition II pulsing through quasi-abstract forms to the future, stampeding over the past. Except that he cannot stamp out the past. (Financial Times)




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