Excellent exhibition about expressionist painter Gabriele Münter at Thyssen Museum #Madrid - a representative of the #BlaueReiter painting movement (El Jinete Azul - everything sounds more dynamic in Spanish 🐎 !)

https://elpais.com/cultura/2024-11-12/el-alma-desconocida-del-expresionismo-aleman-la-artista-gabriele-munter-se-presenta-en-espana.html

One of my favourite painters was at the Tate Modern’s ‘Blaue Reiter’ show, tho the she wasn’t one of the headline names. Marianne von Werefkin was Russian, via Germany and Switzerland. Her life in love, friendships, & art, was dynamic & untraditional, even chaotic.

But in all her work, you can feel the need to push against that overwhelming weight & chaos of the world, with whatever strength we have - physical, creative, psychological...

#TateModern #Expressionism #art #artist #blauereiter

Guten Morgen mit August Macke, der am heutigen Tag 1887 geboren wurde

#malerei #BlaueReiter #Expressionismus

Things to do #InsteadOfWorldCup, 24/29:

Russian-born, Wassily #Kandinsky spent most of his artistic career in #Germany and #France. He died in #Paris 78 years ago today, shortly after the city was liberated from the Nazi occupiers.

Click through for an article describing Kandinsky’s journey to #abstraction.

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#NoWorldCup2022 #Boycott #FIFA #Qatar #CorruptWretches #ContraIlCalcioModerno #Early20thCenturyPainting #BlaueReiter #Bauhaus

https://www.mutualart.com/Article/Kandinskys-Introspective-Path-to-Abstrac/D8C2B04A9E82D3CB

AugustMacke (* 3. Januar 1887 in Meschede, Hochsauerland; † 26. September 1914 bei Perthes-lès-Hurlus, Champagne).

August Macke ▶️ Franz Marc. 9•12•1911
„Kerl, das ist famos mit dem neuen Rauch. Ich hab mir so recht Deine innere Stimmung vorgestellt und hatte ordentlich Herzklopfen vor Vergnügen. Es ist doch gut, dass es solche Momente einer ganz kindlich grossen Begeisterung gibt.“

„Pause,“ 1911. Bleistiftzeichnung. Privatsammlung.

#Kunst #Expressionismus #arthistory #BlaueReiter #avantgarde