Der Blaue Reiter / Il Cavaliere Azzurro (1911-1914)

Formata nel 1911 a Monaco come associazione di pittori ed una società espositrice guidata da Wassily Kandinsky e Franz Marc.

Usando un vocabolario visivo di forme astratte e colori prismatici, gli artisti di Blaue Reiter hanno esplorato i valori spirituali dell'arte in contrasto con [ciò che vedevano come] la corruzione e il materialismo della loro epoca.

Il nome, che significa "cavaliere blu", si riferisce a un motivo chiave nel lavoro di Kandinsky: il cavallo e il cavaliere.

Il gruppo, che pubblicò un influente almanacco con lo stesso nome, si dissolse con l'inizio della prima guerra mondiale. | © The Museum of Modern Art

Wassily Kandinsky | Composition IV, 1911

Ricardo Sanz, 1957

Spanish painter Ricardo Sanz is a figurative contemporary artist. His artistic vocation was forged thanks to his grandfather, who owned the gallery of art La Perfecta, where he met the great artists of painting: Sorolla, Zuloaga, Vázquez Díaz, etc.

At the age of 14 he started his education as a painter with the master José Camps, combining this with his studies in History of Art until he graduated from the University of Deusto in Madrid. He continues studying with important contemporary artists in France and Italy.

Carl von Stetten (1857-1942) | Genre painter

Carl Ernst von Stetten was a German-French🎨 portrait and genre painter🎨 who worked in France and joined the Parisian atelier of Jean-Léon Gérôme🎨 in the 1880s.

He went to Paris in the 1870s for training, and there met Courtois and Dagnan-Bouveret🎨 at the studio of Gérôme; it was for Courtois and Stetten the beginning of a lifelong friendship.

The young Stetten posed for several portraits and was a model for works by his friend (and probable lover).

Albert Bloch (1882-1961) | Expressionist painter

Albert Bloch was the only American artist associated with Der Blaue Reiter - The Blue Rider, a group of early 20th-century European modernists.

He was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He first studied art at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts. In 1901-03 he produced comic strips and cartoons for the St. Louis Star newspaper.

Noè Bordignon | Genre painter

Italian painter Noè Bordignon (1841-1920)  was born in Salvarosa near Castelfranco, Veneto.

He began studies in 1859 at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice, where he was a pupil of Michelangelo Grigoletti, Carlo De Blaas and Pompeo Marino Molmenti.

In 1865, he won a stipend to study in Rome. He later formed a strong friendship with Tranquillo Cremona.