The members of The Blue Rider weren’t thinking about art in the way we do today.

Giclee Print: Improvisation 3, 1909 by Wassily Kandinsky : 2

Gabriele Münter 1909 - Bildnis Marianne von Werefkin [1909] München, Lenbachhaus

Mythical Creatures Horse and Dog, 1913 -Giclee Print by Franz Marc at Art.com

Münter was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a German Expressionist group formed in Munich in 1911. She moved to Stockholm in 1915 when the group dispersed during World War I.

All around the world, horse paintings - or equestrian paintings - are familiar to almost everyone. Horse paintings can be found hanging in homes, offices, museums, and elsewhere. But what is the history behind many of the world's horse paintings? Who are some of the famous equine artists? In what countries has equestrian art flourished? That and more are discussed in this hub!

Gabriele Münter, German painter who was closely affiliated with the artists’ group Der Blaue Reiter (“The Blue Rider”). Münter studied the piano throughout her youth. In 1902 she entered the Phalanx School of art in Munich, Germany, where within a year she began to attend classes in still life and

With a history dating back to 1888, the Milwaukee Art Museum’s Collection includes over 31,000 works from antiquity to the present, encompassing painting, drawing, sculpture, decorative arts, prints, video art and installations, and textiles. The Museum’s collections of American decorative arts, German Expressionist prints and paintings, folk and Haitian art, and American art after 1960 are among the nation’s finest.