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Who painted “The Blue Rider”?

“The Blue Rider” was painted by Wassily Kandinsky in 1903.

The Blue Rider — Wassily Kandinsky

Expressionism

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Wassily Kandinsky: abstract compositions of floating colour, lines and circles; earlier, blazing colour landscapes, later precise geometric forms.

Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky (16 December 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist active in Germany during the late Belle Époque and Interwar eras. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in Western art. Wikipedia

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