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Gabriele Münter

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Also known as Gabrielle Munter, Gabriel Münter, Gabriele Munter, Gabrielle Münter

German painter (1877–1962)

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Gabriele Münter was a German painter, draftsperson, and printmaker associated with the Expressionism movement. Born in Berlin in 1877, she studied under Wassily Kandinsky and worked in Munich, Paris, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and Murnau am Staffelsee. Her artistic output included cityscapes, genre art, still lifes, and portraits. She participated in the documenta and the Venice Biennale.

Münter’s works are held in collections such as the Art Institute of Chicago, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, the National Gallery of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art. She was described in the source *Great Women Masters of Art* and included in the Art+Feminism focus list. Her given names were Helene and Henriette. She died in Murnau am Staffelsee in 1962.

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Person · Open Library

Born
1877
Died
1962
Works
17

Top works

  • Hinterglasmalerei
  • Gabriele M unter: die Jahre mit Kandinsky; Photographien 1902 - 1914. St adtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, M unchen, 10. Februar bis 3. Juni 2007
  • Gabriele Münter, 1877-1962
  • Alexej von Jawlensky und sein Kreis: Freunde, Kollegen, Stationen : Ausstellung, 27. April bis 29. Juni 1991, Galerie Neher (German Edition)
  • Naive and outsider painting from Germany and paintings by Gabriele Münter

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
DK
Active from
1735-03-24
Active to
1793-10-05

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
1
Total plays
1

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Quotes

  • Our sketchbooks and studies – as well as the paintings and photos, convey the detail of our [Gabriele with Kandinsky, 1905] Tunisian impressions. At times we got along well – at times not at all – we took walks in the city and also in the Belvedere park – it was never boring with my beloved [ Kandinsky ], but we didn't made contact with any other people; he never wanted it.
  • As I came to Munich in 1901 it was in a period of great artistic renewal. Jugendstil began in its way to attack the old naturalism and to cultivate the qualities of pure line.
  • After a short period of agony, I took a great leap forward from copying nature, in a more or less impressionist style, to feeling the content of things.
  • ..the rejection of impressionistic copies of nature and a move towards sensing the content, abstraction, – expressing the extract..
  • When I came to the United States [in 1898], I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.. .My American sketches were private notations of visual experiences which I wanted to fix on paper as a personal 'memento'.
  • As a child, I devoted much of my leisure to drawing sketches of relatives and friends, familiar sights and scenes, a view that suddenly moved me or appealed to me. I always concentrated on depicting nature as I saw or felt it, in terms of lines, and obtaining a kind of psychological likeness which would convey the personality of my model or the mood of the moment.

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Key facts

Born
( 1877-02-19 ) 19 February 1877, Berlin , German Empire
Died
19 May 1962 (1962-05-19) (aged 85), Murnau am Staffelsee , Bavaria , West Germany
Known for
Painting
Movement
Expressionism

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Encyclopedic overview

Gabriele Münter (19 February 1877 – 19 May 1962) was a German expressionist painter who was at the forefront of the Munich avant-garde in the early 20th century. She studied and lived with the painter Wassily Kandinsky and was a founding member of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter.

Early life

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gabriele Münter” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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