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, emigrated 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