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Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/blauereiteralmanOOOOkand r y The Blaue Reiter Almanac THE DOCUMENTS OF 20TH-CENTURY ART ROBERT MOTHERWELL, GENERAL EDITOR BERNARD KARPEL, DOCUMENTARY EDITOR ARTHUR A. COHEN, MANAGING EDITOR V\ K THE BLAUE REITER ALMANAC EDITED BY WASSILY KANDINSKY AND FRANZ MARC "AJ Griw- ■- ■ KM/3 NEW DOCUMENTARY EDITION EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY KLAUS LANKHEIT NEW YORK THE VIKING PRESS V! r\s*2o\\ß Der Blaue Reiter © R. Piper & Co. Verlag, München 1965 English-Language translation © 1974 by Thames and Hudson Ltd, London All rights reserved Published in 1974 in a hardbound and paperback edition by The Viking Press, Inc., 625 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10022 Published simultaneously in Canada by The Macmillan Company of Canada Limited SBN 670-17355-x (hardbound) 670-01931-3 (paperback) Library of Congress catalog card number: 75-170678 Printed in Germany by Herder Druck GmbH Freiburg Bound in Holland Translated by Henning Falkenstein, with the assistance of Manug Terzian and Gertrude Hinderlie Contents Numbers in brackets represent page numbers of original edition Preface to the English-Language Edition 7 Preface to the 1965 German Edition 8 A History of the Almanac by Klaus Lankheit 11 Spiritual Treasures by Franz Marc [1] 55 The “Savages” of Germany by Franz Marc [5] 61 Two Pictures by Franz Marc [8] 65 The “Savages” of Russia by D. Burliuk [13] 72 Quotation (Delacroix) [20] 81 Masks by August Macke [21] 83 The Relationship to the Text by Arnold Schönberg [27] 90 Poem by M. Kuzmin [34] 103 Signs of Renewal in Painting by Roger Allard [35] 104 Quotation (Goethe) [42] 112 On Anarchy in Music by Th. v. Hartmann [43] 113 Robert Delaunay’s Methods of Composition by E. v. Busse [48] 119 Eugen Kahler: An Obituary by Wassily Kandinsky [53] 124 Scriabin’s “Prometheus” by L. Sabaneiev [57] 127 Free Music by N. Kulbin [69] 141 On the Question of Form by Kandinsky [74] 147 Quotation (from W. Rosanov’s Italian Impressions) [101] 187 On Stage Composition by Kandinsky [103] 190 The Yellow Sound: A Stage Composition by Kandinsky [115] 207 27S547 Appendix Documents: Facsimiles and Translations 241 Notes on the Contributors 261 Notes on the Illustrations 267 Notes on the Musical Compositions 282 Selected Bibliography by Bernard Karpel 283 Index of Names 293
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