Phalanx (art group)

The Phalanx group were opposed to old fashioned and conservative viewpoints in art.

Founding members were Wassily Kandinsky, Rolf Niczky, Waldemar Hecker, and Wilhelm Hüsgen.

Kandinsky was elected president of the association and also became the director of the Phalanx School of Painting.

[1] The group organized twelve exhibitions between 1901 and 1904 which in addition to those of its members, featured works by Claude Monet, Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) artists, Symbolists and Post-Impressionist artists Paul Signac, Félix Vallotton and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

Phalanx was where Kandinsky met Gabriele Münter, an art student at the school.