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The Blue Rider Circle

Munich, 1911. Kandinsky and Marc found Der Blaue Reiter, and their friends carry its colour as far as Tunisia.

Sources: Wikipedia: Der Blaue ReiterWikipedia: August Macke

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Franz Marc became the painter he wanted to be in the winter of 1910 to 1911. He painted animals, pure and true as he saw them, in colours he gave meanings of their own.

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In 1911 Munich's New Artists' Association rejected one of Kandinsky's paintings for its winter show. He walked out, and with Franz Marc hung a rival exhibition in the rooms next door.

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The artists knew each other

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August Macke met Kandinsky through Franz Marc in 1910 and showed in the first Blue Rider exhibition. He was killed in France in September 1914, in the second month of the war.

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Paul Klee joined the Blue Rider's almanac in the winter of 1911, mostly as a draughtsman in black and white. In April 1914 he spent twelve days painting in Tunisia with August Macke.

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Henri Rousseau was a Paris customs officer who taught himself to paint. Critics laughed at him; young painters did not. In 1908 Picasso threw a banquet in his honour.

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A hidden link

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