Charles Johann Palmié (1863-1911) A pointillist/Neo-Impressionist painter is noted for: being a founding member with Wassily Kandinsky in 1909 of NKVM which prefigured Der Blaue Reiter, the first modernist secession which is regarded as a forerunner and pathfinder for Modern art in 20th-centuryGermanyand for painting with Claude Monet in Giverny, France in 1906.