In another episode with Münter during the Bavarian abstract expressionist years, Kandinsky was working on his Composition VI.

He collected works by French and German Expressionist artists, from groups including Die Brücke and Der Blaue Reiter, such as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Max Pechstein, Emil Nolde, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Franz Marc, Gabriele Münter, Alexej von Jawlensky, and Max Beckmann.

The group was founded by a number of Russian emigrants, including Wassily Kandinsky, Alexej von Jawlensky, Marianne von Werefkin, and native German artists, such as Franz Marc, August Macke and Gabriele Münter.

Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, August Macke, Alexej von Jawlensky, Marianne von Werefkin, Gabriele Münter, Lyonel Feininger, Albert Bloch and others formed the group in response to the rejection of Kandinsky's painting Last Judgement from an exhibition.

43 works by 14 artists were shown: paintings by Henri Rousseau, Albert Bloch, David Burliuk, Wladimir Burliuk, Heinrich Campendonk, Robert Delaunay, Elisabeth Epstein, Eugen von Kahler, Wassily Kandinsky, August Macke, Franz Marc, Gabriele Münter, Jean Bloé Niestlé and Arnold Schönberg, and an illustrated catalogue edited.

Gabriele Münter and Wassily Kandinsky of the Blaue Reiter artistic collective lived there for several years.

Soon after she began taking classes, Münter became attached to the Phalanx School ’ s director, the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky.

Kandinsky was the first teacher that had actually taken Münter ’ s painting abilities seriously.

In the summer of 1902, Kandinsky invited Münter to join him at his summer painting classes just south of Munich in the Alps.

Soon enough Münter and Kandinsky, along with the other artists, began painting their own designs on the glass pieces.

Münter loved Kandinsky and worked hard to bring him and his paintings to the public eye.

Kandinsky ’ s and Münter ’ s professional and personal relationship lasted for about twelve years.

Kandinsky was married for fifteen years while he was in a relationship with Münter.

Münter and Kandinsky fell in love with the village of Murnau in southern Bavaria.

In 1911 Münter, Kandinsky and Franz Marc founded the expressionist group known as Der Blaue Reiter ( The Blue Rider ).

At the end of their relationship, there were a number of images that were returned to Kandinsky, but Münter stored many of the pieces in a warehouse for many years.

In the years to come, Kandinsky and Münter moved to neutral Switzerland during the war.

During Kandinsky ’ s time in Moscow, he divorced his first wife, ( his cousin, Anja Chimiakin ), and instead of marrying Münter, he decided to marry another woman he had met in Russia.

Münter never heard from Kandinsky again.

Gabriele Münter ( 19 February 1877 – 19 May 1962 ) was a German expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century.

The Gabrielle Münter and Johannes Eichner foundation was established and has become a valuable research center for Münter ’ s art, as well as the art that was done by the Blaue Reiter group.

Münter ’ s work remained figurative.

During this time their relationship affected Münter ’ s art.

At the invitation of Wassily Kandinsky, Delaunay joined The Blue Rider ( Der Blaue Reiter ), a Munich-based group of abstract artists, in 1911, and his art took a turn for the abstract Delaunay was also successful in Germany, Switzerland, and Russia.

Finally what makes this gallery extremely important is the amazing collection Russian avant-garde with works by Kazimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, Natalia Goncharova, Mikhail Larionov and so on.

Given that many of these avant-garde artists were born or grew up in what is present day Belarus and Ukraine ( including Kazimir Malevich, Aleksandra Ekster, Vladimir Tatlin, Wassily Kandinsky, David Burliuk, Alexander Archipenko ), some sources also talk about Ukrainian avant-garde.

He was one of the first advocates of the avant-garde artistic group Der Blaue Reiter and gave a lecture on the art of Wassily Kandinsky.

These " modernist " landmarks include the atonal ending of Arnold Schoenberg's Second String Quartet in 1908, the expressionist paintings of Wassily Kandinsky starting in 1903 and culminating with his first abstract painting and the founding of the Blue Rider group in Munich in 1911, and the rise of fauvism and the inventions of cubism from the studios of Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and others in the years between 1900 and 1910.

From 1906 to 1908 Kandinsky spent a great deal of time travelling across Europe ( he was an associate of the Blue Rose symbolist group of Moscow ), until he settled in the small Bavarian town of Murnau.

However, the group could not integrate the radical approach of Kandinsky ( and others ) with conventional artistic concepts and the group dissolved in late 1911.

Kandinsky then formed a new group, the Blue Rider ( Der Blaue Reiter ) with like-minded artists such as August Macke and Franz Marc.

So, the painted work is accompanied with a group of texts that at the same time clarify his work and make Kandinsky one of the main theorists of art.

He had achieved some fame by this time and exhibited with Kandinsky ’ s Der Blaue Reiter group in 1912, supporting himself through his art.

Kandinsky, the main artist of Der Blaue Reiter group, believed that with simple colours and shapes the spectator could perceive the moods and feelings in the paintings, a theory that encouraged him towards increased abstraction.

Irwin whistling can be heard on his solo performances and albums, but also in appearances with the chamber music group Kandinsky Trio.

In 1923 Kandinsky, Feininger, Klee and Alexej von Jawlensky formed Die Blaue Vier ( the Blue Four ) group, and exhibited and lectured together in the United States in 1924.

A non-prescriptive group of artists were involved, whose ideals and practices varied widely: Albert Gleizes, František Kupka, Piet Mondrian, Jean Arp, Marlow Moss, Naum Gabo, Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Kurt Schwitters, Wassily Kandinsky, Théo Kerg, Taro Okamoto, Paule Vézelay, Hans Erni, Bart van der Leck, Leon Tutundjian and John Wardell Power.

Among early modernist non-literary landmarks is the atonal ending of Arnold Schoenberg's Second String Quartet in 1908, the Expressionist paintings of Wassily Kandinsky starting in 1903 and culminating with his first abstract painting and the founding of the Expressionist Blue Rider group in Munich in 1911, and the rise of fauvism and the inventions of cubism from the studios of Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and others in the years between 1900 and 1910.

In 1911, Kandinsky painted Bild mit Kreis ( Picture With a Circle ) which he later called the first abstract painting.

Kandinsky sometimes used musical terms to identify his works ; he called his most spontaneous paintings " improvisations " and described more elaborate works as " compositions.

In 1911 Marc founded the Der Blaue Reiter journal, which became the center of an artist circle with Macke, Wassily Kandinsky, and others who decided to split off from the Neue Künstlervereinigung ( New Artist's Association ) movement.