The Neue Künstlervereinigung München e.V (NKVM), ("Munich New Artist's Association", if literally translated from German) formed in 1909 in Munich around Wassily Kandinsky, and prefigured Der Blaue Reiter, the first modernist secession which is regarded as a forerunner and pathfinder for Modern art in 20th century Germany.
In 1909, 1910 and 1911, the NKVM organised three cycling exhibitions:
The first cycle: showed the original group and artists invited
The second cycle: expanded to a wide view on French and Russian vanguarde artists like Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and .
The third and final cycle: excluded most of the previous exhibitors, especially the secessionists of Der Blaue Reiter who launched their own parallel show in the same gallery, as a result of tensions within the NKVM.[1]
1st Cycle: "Turnus 1909-1910"
The catalogue of the first NKVM exhibition lists 128 items by 16 artists: Paul Baum, Wladimir von Bechtejeff, Erma Bossi, Dresler, Eckert, Erbslöh, Pierre Girieud, Hofer, Jawlensky, Kandinsky, Kanoldt, Kogan, Alfreds Kubin, Münter, Pohle, Werefkin, and is accompanyied by 14 reproductions and a list of prices.[2]
On view since December 1st, 1909, at the Moderne Galerie in Munich, this exhibition saw 9 venues:
December 1 - 15, 1909: Munich, Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser
On view since December 18th, 1911, at the Moderne Galerie in Munich, this exhibition originally was to see 8 or 9 venues, but probably ceased to travel after the 2nd venue:
December 18, 1911, - January 1, 1912: Munich/München, Moderne Galerie