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The Blue Rider became a symbol of a revolution in modern art in the early twentieth century. Works by Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, and Paul Klee have since become avant-garde icons known throughout the world. The Lenbachhaus in Munich, Germany, possesses the world’s finest collection of works by these artists, and this outstanding volume brings together some 120 highlights in a sumptuously revised edition. In 1911, a group of young renegades seceded from Munich’s established art society to protest against a jury’s rejection of one of Kandinsky’s works. Headed by Kandinsky and Marc, these artists organized their own exhibitions and published an almanac, both of which they called The Blue Rider. Although the group that was formed was short-lived, its elan has proved to be of lasting influence on twentieth-century art. In its preoccupation with abstraction, the forces and laws of nature, “primitive” art, and the role of color, the work of the Blue Rider artists revolved around many concerns central to the birth of Modernism. An introductory essay by the Director of the Lenbachhaus, together with biographies of the artists, full-color reproductions, and plate-by-plate commentaries make The Blue Rider an invaluable introduction to a major landmark in the history of twentieth-century art. t