Catalog of an exhibition held at the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, September 4, 2016 - January 22, 2017. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Foreword and acknowledgments / Fiona Hesse. Der Blaue Reiter : a chronology / Oskar Bätschmann -- Thinking in pictures : what Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky have in common with Aby Warburg / Andreas Beyer -- Kandinsky, Marc, and Der Blaue Reiter : The almanac ; Murnau ; Wassily Kandinsky in 1910: from figuration to abstraction ; Franz Marc: horses and painting ; August Macke ; Franz Marc: demons ; Synaesthesia / Ulf Küster -- The rider and the dream : the relationship between Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky through the works they exchanged / Marta Ruiz del Árbol -- French joie de vivre and German profundity : August Macke, Franz Marc, and their relationship to French painting / Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy -- Der Blaue Reiter : a chronology / Fiona Hesse.
Summary:
For just a few years at the beginning of the twentieth century, Munich was the "hot spot" of Germany's artistic avant-garde. Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc's initiative as founding editors of the almanac Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) was a stroke of luck for the arts. The journal and exhibition of the same name made international waves when they heralded the start of the modern era in Germany before the First World War. Since then, the names of the movement's key players Franz Marc, Gabriele Münter, Alexej von Jawlensky, August Macke et al., signal an essential chapter in the international history of art marked by the transition of painting into a vibrant, colorful and transcendental form of abstraction. This beautiful publication that dedicates itself to this topic will show a revolutionary re-valuation of the arts in an open Europe.
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