Founded by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc as an editorial collective in 1911, Der Blaue Reiter entered the public eye with exhibitions and the publication of a programmatic almanac in 1912 with a ...

The Blue Rider is the name of a picture, a periodical and a movement, all centred on the intense, bespectacled figure of Wassily Kandinsky. He painted one of the pictures with that title ...

Because there's more than one way, you know. Just ask the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky. Late one night in 1908, he was walking through his studio and he saw an incredible picture. It was just ...

Wassily Kandinsky loved music and could play the cello and the piano. His paintings were even inspired by music. He literally saw colours when he heard music and heard music when he painted.