With Wassily Kandinsky as president and members including Alexei Jawlensky and Gabriele Münter, the Neue Künstlervereinigung München (NKV) (New Artists’ Association of Munich) mounted controversial exhibitions of futurist-influenced work in 1909, 1910 and 1911.
Kandinsky resigned in 1911 and with Franz Marc, who had defended the NKV against widespread criticism the previous year, founded Der Blaue Reiter.