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Wassily Kandinsky
Painting with Green Center, oil on canvas by Wassily Kandinsky, 1913; in the Art Institute of Chicago.
Wassily Kandinsky founded the influential artist organization Der Blaue Reiter in 1911 with the German painter and printmaker Franz Marc.2
The two artists formed the group after splitting from the Neue Künstlervereinigung ("New Artists' Association") in Munich. Together, they sought to create spiritually expressive art as a means of opposing the materialism of modern society, eventually editing the Der Blaue Reiter Almanach, which was published in 1912.12