Der Blaue Reiter
Artist: Various artists
Publisher: R. Piper & Co., Munich, 1914 (1st ed. 1912)
Author: Franz Marc (German, 1880-1916)
Date: 1914
Dimensions:
Book (rounded spine): H: 11 5/8 in. (296 mm); W: 9 in. (229 mm); Depth: 11/16 in. (17 mm).
Page: H: 11 3/8 in. (289 mm); W: 8 1/2 in. (216 mm).
Medium: Reproductions: 6 line block reproductions in colors of drawings and woodcuts (incl. covers); plus photolithographs of paintings, prints, drawings, and photographs
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Text: photolithography.
Paper: coated cream wove paper, cream laid paper, blue laid paper.
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss
Object number: 1984.1321
Label Text:Vassily Kandinsky and other members of the artists’ collective called The Blue Rider wanted to break down the barriers and distinctions between the arts. Their journal featured the work of the Expressionists along with children’s, folk, and ethnographic art, as well as music, criticism, and drama. The Blue Rider described themselves as “‘savages’ fighting against an old established order. The battle seemed unequal, but spiritual matters are never decided by numbers, only by the power of ideas. New ideas can kill what seems indestructible.” The cover of the only issue of the journal to be published features an image of Saint George, the most popular saint in Kandinsky’s native Russia. Here, as the Blue Rider, he symbolizes the triumph of art over the dragon of a decadent and materialistic civilization.
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