Which Russian painter, who died in 1944, founded the 'Blau Reiter' group?
Der Blaue Reiter Der Blaue Reiter Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) was a group of artists united in rejection of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München in Munich, Germany. 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. They considered that the principles of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München, a group Kandinsky had founded in 1909, had become too strict and traditional. Der Blaue Reiter was an art movement lasting from 1911 to 1914, fundamental to Expressionism, along with Die Brücke which
Arthur Segal (painter) Arthur Segal (painter) Arthur Segal (23 July 1875 — 23 June 1944) was a Romanian artist and author. Segal was born to Jewish parents in Iaşi, Romania, and studied at the Berlin Academy from 1892. He studied with and Hölzel in Munich in 1896, and later studied in Paris and Italy in the early 1900s. After studying in Paris and Italy, he eventually moved to Berlin in 1904 where he exhibited his work with Die Brucke and Der Blaue Reiter, two leading German expression groups. In 1910 he co-founded the "Neue Sezession", a group of artists whose work was rejected