Der Blaue Reiter
Der Blaue Reiter is a 1914 German almanac published in Munich by R. Piper, collecting essays and images by the Blaue Reiter group of Expressionist artists for a German-speaking art audience. The pictures range from a medieval-style woodcut with crowded narrative scenes to loose, dark-toned prints of figures in landscapes and simplified nudes, showing how modern artists borrowed from folk and early art. A designer might take the flattened figures, bold outlines and cramped compositions as a model for expressive, hand-made graphics.
