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.