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The exhibition concludes by showing how Blue Rider artists ensured their lasting legacy in ways we recognize today.
Publishing manifestos and editorials, organizing exhibitions, touring, and fos- tering relationships with museums and galleries, Blue Rider artists ensured the longevity of their movement and their works.
With the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, the collective was dispersed, but its ideas and aspirations for a transnational creative community still resonate powerfully today.
“A union of diverse countries to serve a single goal” is a strong and free message that is fundamentally relevant today as conflicts erupt on all sides and the freedom to think, express and create is in such danger in many nations who forget that we are only one humanity on a wonderful blue ball endangered by so much ego and stupidity.
Albert Einstein said that he could not yet prove that the universe is infinite, but unfortunately for the stupidity he was certain of it. These artists understood the beauty of difference
and wonderfully left room for individuality
for the good of the community.
Franz Marc
Tiger, 1912
Lenbachhaus Munich, Donation of the Bernhard and Elly Koehler Foundation 1965