Painted by Franz Marc (1880-1916), the co-founder, with Wassily Kandinsky of the Expressionist art group The Blue Rider, founded in Munich in 1911-12. The woman's arm is raised, almost in worship ...

The Blue Rider is the name of a picture, a periodical and a movement, all centred on the intense, bespectacled figure of Wassily Kandinsky ... and artists centred in Munich and in Bavaria before ...