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...period of 1905 to 1935 was one of great fluorescence in German art. It saw the formation of three extremely influential bands of artists: "Die Bruecke," creators of a monumental expressionistic style, "Die Blaue Reiter," who made bold experiments in color and form, one of whose members painted the first "abstract" picture, and finally, the "Bauhaus Painters," who found a creative center for their work in a design institute that attempted to "unite the arts under the leadership of architecture to create the building of the future...
...Academy, he once recalled that "the artistic desert of the 19th century was our nursery." He escaped the desert via Paris, went home full of the doings of the Fauves and cubists. In 1911 he joined with Klee and Kandinsky to found a group of equal importance called Der Blaue Reiter...
Although 58's poetry is one the whole unexciting, A. E. Keir Nash's "Der Blaue Reiter" uses some very effective imagery in portraying the imaginative travels of a little boy on a wooden horse. Sallie Bingham seems to take a rather ambivalent attitude toward "The Young Girls," who "love in prudent silence on the frozen ground." Some allusions which bring to mind the Seven Dwarfs ("And start to work with soap, and heavy towels . . .") weaken the poem considerably. In his poem about Perseus, William Teunis describes the gods as "con-vanished," so it is somewhat jarring when they reappear...
...note said: "Please be at Apartment Eight on the first floor of No. 15 Blaue Lampe Strasse at 6 this evening." Beautiful Countess Kristina Dukay popped into her "sheer, cobweb-thin, rose-colored slip" and a blue dress, dabbed on some stuff called Chanson du Narcisse and scuttled off to the assignation . . . The door opened, and in came a man wearing a beard and yellow spectacles. As Kristina teetered in a state of pleasant giddiness, the man raised his hand, ripped off his beard and spectacles, and stood revealed-the Emperor Karl of Austria himself...
Likewise enlightening are Instructor Goldwater's careful analyses of different kinds of Primitivism in the two great groups of pre-War experimenters in Germany: Die Brücke ("The Bridge") and Der Blaue Reiter ("The Blue Rider...