The Expressionist group known as The Blue Rider formed in Munich in around 1911. The leading exponent was Franz Marc, and his most iconic painting can be seen here in the Thyssen Museum. The Dream, also known as The Blue Horses.
Marc used colour in an irrational manner, painting the horses blue, or the female nude figure in a single shade of bright pink. The painter devised a theory of colour as a symbolic value. Sadly, he died young in 1916, at the battle of Verdun during the First World War.
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