"Our first and most important goal is to reflect artistic events directly connected with this change and the facts needed to shed light on these events, even in other fields of the spiritual life. Therefore, the reader will find works in our series that bear an inner relationship to one another in the aforementioned context, although they may appear unrelated on the surface."
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Der Blaue Reiter
Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) - in quotes. Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider) was a group of artists including their Art-Journal, initiated in 1911, in Munich, Germany. The group and the journal was founded by Kandinsky & Franz Marc and played an important role in German Expressionism. Participating artists were Russian emigrants, including Wassily Kandinsky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Marianne von Werefkin, and native German artists, such as Franz Marc, August Macke and Gabriele Münter.
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