Free expressionism: a fresh look at revolutionary art collective the Blue Rider

A new exhibition shows how the early 20th-century German artists, helmed by Wassily Kandinksy and Gabriele Münter, created a space where creativity could flourish without the constraints of gender, sexuality or artistic expectationThe story of expressionist art, with its bold colours, off-kilter figures and presciently unsettling atmosphere of pre-first world war Germany, is usually told through the prism of two groups of artists: Die Brücke (The Bridge), operating