Gabriele MÜNTER

German painter and engraver.

[ BERLIN 1877 – MURNAU 1962 ]

Domain :

ARTS

Geographical area :

EUROPE

Allemagne

Author : Marie GISPERT

Under the direction of : Marie-Laure BERNADAC

Born to an upper middle class protestant family, Gabriele Münter enrolled at the Malschule für Dame [Ladies’ painting school] in Düsseldorf in 1897. After spending two years in the United States, she moved back to Munich in 1901 to continue her artistic training and quickly gravitated toward the lessons provided by the new art association Phalanx. There, she learnt wood engraving with Ernst Neumann, sculpture with Wilhelm Hüsgen, and especially painting nudes with Wassily Kandinsky, with whom her personal relationship...

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Bibliography

■ Gabriele Münter, 1877-1962, Retrospektive (exhibition catalogue), Munich, Prestel, 1992; with Kandinsky W., Wassily Kandinsky und Gabriele Münter in Murnau und Kochel 1902-1914, Briefe und Erinnerungen (1994) (exhibition catalogue), Hoberg A. (ed.), Munich/Berlin/London, Prestel, 2005; Gabriele Münter, Das Druckgraphische Werk (exhibition catalogue), Friedel H., Eichner-Stiftung J. (ed.), Munich/New York, Prestel, 2000; Gabriele Münter (exhibition catalogue), Hoberg A., Friedel H. (ed.), Munich/Berlin/London, Prestel, 2004

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