After the Neue Künstlervereinigung jury rejected Kandinsky's Composition V, he and Franz Marc resigned and mounted their own exhibition in two weeks at the Thannhauser gallery, under the name Der Blaue Reiter. Kandinsky, Marc, Gabriele Münter, August Macke and Henri Rousseau hung side by side.
The Munich wing of German Expressionism took form here, and Kandinsky's path into full abstraction ran directly through it.
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