The Blaue Reiter — Hajo Duchting Duchting

Although 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 émigré Wassily Kandinsky and German painter Franz Marc sought to reject establishment standards and charge into a new artistic unknown Articulating spiritual values and concerns in an era of rapid industrialization the artists of the Blaue Reiter were connected by a shared interest in painting woodcuts and prints as well as the symbolic values of color and spontaneous approaches to artwork Key pieces such as Franz Marc s Blue Horse I 1911 Kandinsky s Picture with a Black Arch 1912 and August Macke s Woman in a Green Jacket 1913 reveal varying subjects but all channel distorted perspectives crude lines and an emphatic expressionist use of color The Blaue Reiter was abruptly truncated by the onset of the First World War which killed two of its leading artists along with growing dissent between the group s protagonists This book reveals the movement s remarkable influence despite its brevity presenting key works artists and their reverberating effects Tanıtım Bülteninden