Large poster for the first exhibition of the Neue Künstlervereinigung München, 1–15 December 1909.

The NKVM was established in January of 1909, and Kandinsky was elected the first chairman of the association. The first exhibition was held in December of that year and included works by such artists as Erma Bossi, Alfred Kubin, and Marianne von Werefkin. After Kandinsky resigned as chairman in early 1911, he soon began developing his ideas for Der Blaue Reiter with Franz Marc in the summer of 1911. In December 1911, Kandinsky’s painting Komposition V was controversially rejected from the third NKVM exhibition, leading him to formally leave the association and quickly set up an exhibition for Der Blaue Reiter with Marc instead. The NKVM and Blaue Reiter exhibitions were shown in opposite galleries at Galerie Thannhauser, prompting even greater tensions between the artists. | Quelle: Lithograph on paper, 92 x 63.3 cm, Centre Pompidou, Paris. © Philippe Migeat - Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI /Dist. RMN-GP. | Rechte: vorbehalten