Noun
A German cavalry soldier of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWe [ Franz Marc & Kandinsky] thought up the name [ Der Blaue Reiter (Blue Rider)] while sitting at a cafe table... Both of us were fond of blue things, [Franz] Marc of blue horses, and I of blue riders. So the title suggested itself. Wassily Kandinsky
The editors of the Blaue Reiter will now be the starting point for new exhibitions... We will try to become the center of the new movement. The association may assume there the role of the new. Franz Marc
I am sure of one thing: many silent readers and young people full of energy will secretly be grateful to us, will be fired by enthusiasm for this book [the Blaue Reiter Almanac ] and will judge the world in accordance with it. Franz Marc
Accordingly, Reiter began working on an overhand spiral pass. Reiter recalled trying to imitate the motion of a baseball catcher throwing to second base. Source: Internet
A few years later, in 1911, a like-minded group of young artists formed Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) in Munich. Source: Internet
After practice and experimentation, Reiter "discovered he could get greater distance and accuracy throwing that way." Source: Internet