Neue Künstlervereinigung München

The registered association was formed in 1909 and prefigured Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), the first modernist secession which is regarded as a forerunner and pathfinder for Modern art in 20th-century Germany.

was the "Brotherhood of St. Luke", which the Russian painter Marianne von Werefkin had gathered around her in 1897 in her adopted home of Munich in the district of Schwabing in her "pink salon".

Apart from Werefkin, Alexej von Jawlensky, Adolf Erbslöh and the German entrepreneur, art collector, aviation pioneer and musician Oscar Wittenstein [de] were involved in founding "the new artists' association".

E. Buttler, Adolf Erbslöh, Leonhard Frank, Gustav Freytag, Thomas de Hartmann, Alexej von Jawlensky, Wassily Kandinsky, Alexander Kanoldt, Marga Kanoldt-Zerener, Johanna Kanoldt,[2] Alfred Kubin, Gabriele Münter, Charles Johann Palmié, Hugo Schimmel, art historian Heinrich Schnabel, Marianne von Werefkin and Oscar Wittenstein.

In the same year Paul Baum, Erma Bossi, Pierre Girieud [fr], Karl Hofer, Moissey Kogan and the Russian dancer Alexander Sacharoff joined the association.

[4] On view beginning on December 1, 1909, at the Moderne Galerie in Munich, this exhibition traveled to 9 venues: It received mainly negative criticism from the local press.

exhibition lists 115 items by 29 artists: Bechtejew, Bossi, Braque, Derain, Kees van Dongen, Durio, Erbslöh, Le Fauconnier, Girieud, Haller, Hoetger, Jawlensky, von Kahler, Kandinsky, Kanoldt, Kogan, Kubin, Alexander Mogilewski, Münter, Nieder, Picasso, Rouault, Scharff, de Vlaminck, Werefkin, David Burljuk, Wladimir Burljuk, Denissoff, Soudbinine, and is accompanied by 20 reproductions and 2 pages of advertisements.