Der Blaue Reiter
The Neue Künstlervereinigung München (N.K.V.M.), ("Munich New Association of Artists", if literally translated from German) formed in 1909 in Munich around Wassily Kandinsky, and prefigured Der Blaue Reiter, the first modernist secession which is regarded as a forerunner and pathfinder for Modern art in 20th-century Germany.