"It is impossible to explain the latest works of these wild men | that is, the artists of Der Blaue Reiter, and Die Brücke, [working in Munich, and Berlin] in terms of a formal evolution and a reinterpretation of Impressionism. The loveliest prismatic colors and the famous Cubist style have become meaningless in terms of the objectives of the iconoclasts. Their thinking has a different aim: with their labor, they want to create symbols for their era. symbols that belong on the altars of the coming spiritual religions behind which the technical producer will vanish."
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Quote by Franz Marc, in the Almanac of the 'Blaue Reiter', 1912; as quoted in Expressionism, a German intuition, 1905-1920, Neugroschel, Joachim; Vogt, Paul; Keller, Horst; Urban, Martin; Dube, Wolf Dieter; (transl. Joachim Neugroschel); publisher: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, 1980, p. 95
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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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