Blaue Reiter

Blaue Reiter

(ˈblauə ˈraitər) n (Art Movements) der Blaue Reiter. 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[C20: literally: blue rider, name adopted by Kandinsky and Marc because they liked the colour blue, horses, and riders]