Blaue Reiter

American  

[blou-uh rahy-tuhr] / ˈblaʊ ə ˈraɪ tər /

noun

German.

1. a group of artists active in Germany, especially in or near Munich, during the early 20th century, whose works were characterized by the use of Fauve color and forms distorted for structural or emotive purposes.

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Blaue Reiter British  

/ ˈblauə ˈraitər /

noun

1. der a group of German expressionist painters formed in Munich in 1911, including Kandinsky and Klee, who sought to express the spiritual side of man and nature, which they felt had been neglected by impressionism

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Etymology

Origin of Blaue Reiter

C20: literally: blue rider, name adopted by Kandinsky and Marc because they liked the colour blue, horses, and riders

Example Sentences

Both were members of the progressive Blaue Reiter group in Germany.

From New York Times • Sep. 6, 2018

Guests can visit the galleries featuring Viennese work by Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka alongside decorative arts, and fine art from German movements like the Bauhaus and the Blaue Reiter.

From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2015

This fall the Neue Galerie will tackle a perhaps lesser-known dimension of the artist’s work in “Vasily Kandinsky: From Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus, 1910-1925.”

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2013

Munich claims to be the birthplace of modern art, and indeed its Blaue Reiter group pioneered in the abstract movement; Munich's galleries today are loaded with the works of Kandinsky and Klee.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is in Munich a group of artists who call themselves Der Blaue Reiter.

From The Eurhythmics of Jaques-Dalcroze by Jaques-Dalcroze, Emile