Gabriele Münter
“In the midst of the Nazi era, Münter ignored the limitations imposed on her as a radical artist and continued to produce still lifes, portraits, landscapes, and interior scenes, such as Breakfast of the Birds.” – Link to Source
Gabriele Münter, Breakfast of the Birds, 1934 (Link to Source)
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Gabriele Münter (First Draft)
German artist/Expressionist painter
Born Feb 19, 1877 in Munich, Germany
Died May 19, 1962 in Murnau, Germany
Biographical Detail:
1877 Born to upper-middle-class Protestant parents
1902- 1904 Attended Munich’s progressive new Phalanx School; studied sculpture and woodcut technique
1902 Began a 12-year professional and personal relationship with the Phalanx School’s director Wassily Kandinsky
1906-1907 Attended Training at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Paris
1909 Helped establish the Munich-based avant-garde group “Neue Künstlervereinigung”
1911 Together with Wassily Kandinsky and several other artists, she formed the Expressionist organization “Der Blaue Reiter”
1914 during WW1, emigration to Switzerland; artistic inactivity
1915- 1917: Lived in Sweden, before settling in Copenhagen
1920s Münter returned to Germany, lived in Murnau and started painting again seriously
Artistic Work: Drawings, prints, sculpture and painting
Style: Expressionism, Fauvism
Selection of Works:
Breakfast of the Birds (1934)
Boating (1910)
Sources:
http://www.nmwa.org, Gabriele Münter (Link to Website)
http://www.artnet.com, Gabriele Münter (Link to Website)
Gabriele Münter- und Johannes Eichner-Stiftung (Link to Website)
Artist’s Estate:
Gabriele Münter- und Johannes Eichner-Stiftung, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany (Link to Website)
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Story Map of the Artist’s life: