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This exhibition tells the story of an international circle of friends from the early 20th century, all united to transform modern art.
The creators thus compose “The Blue Rider” with their sculptures, paintings and pho- tographs combined with performances and sounds.
130 works brought together in the United Kingdom for the first time in more than 60 years, thanks to a collaboration with the Lenbachhaus in Munich and rare loans from public and private collections.
Famous artists such as Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter, Franz Marc and Paul Klee are presented alongside previously neglected figures.
The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter) was a network of diverse, loosely affiliated artists, linked by their desire to express their personal experiences and spiritual ideas. They published their revolutionary Almanac in 1912, edited by Kandinsky and Marc, and held two public exhibitions in 1911 and 1912.
The collective brought together highly individual creators from across Western and Eastern Europe and the United States to form «a union of various countries to serve a single purpose.” They proclaimed that “all work, called art, knows neither borders nor nations, only humanity”.
Before the First World War, Munich was a center of artistic experimentation where different cultures and experiences converged.
Marianne von Werefkin, Self-portrait I, c.1910 Lenbachhaus Munich