In Murnau, a quaint market town 40 miles south of Munich, there is a pretty little house that changed the course of modern art.
From 1909 to 1914, the Münter-Haus – now a fascinating museum – was the lively rendezvous of a group of Expressionist artists who called themselves Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), now the subject of a new exhibition at London’s Tate Modern.
In Britain, we tend to regard the German Expressionists as a gloomy bunch, painting pictures of crippled soldiers, consumptive prostitutes and decadent nightclubs. That’s only half the story. Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider, at Tate Modern, reveals the brighter side of Expressionism, full of hope and light.
The Blaue Reiter artists were more interested
