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Born in Berlin

Drawing lessons at a private ladies' art school in Düsseldorf, which she had to give up due to her mother's illness and death.

Stay in the USA until October 1900

Moves to Munich. Starts studying at the Ladies' Academy of the Artists' Association

Woodcutting course at the Wolff Neumann School and sculpture course with Wilhelm Hüsgen at the Phalanx School, which includes painting lessons with Wassily Kandinsky. In summer, stays with Kandinsky's painting class at the Phalanx School in Kochel. In December, joins Kandinsky's painting class at the Phalanx School.

Summer holiday with the Phalanx class in Kallmünz. Kandinsky and Münter become engaged. In the following years, numerous trips with Kandinsky, including to Holland, Tunisia, Italy, France and Switzerland

Stay in Paris together with Kandinsky

Münter settles in Munich with Kandinsky. In the summer, the two discover Murnau and the Staffelsee. Together with Alexej Jawlensky and Marianne Werefkin, they worked for several months in Murnau and the surrounding area. For Münter, this stay signalled the breakthrough to a new style of painting. Until then, Münter had mainly created small-format, impressionistic open-air studies with a naturalistic palette in shades of green, grey and brown in small-scale, spatulated applications of paint. In Murnau, under the influence of Jawlensky, she switched to a broad, fluid brushstroke with bright, unmixed colours, some of which were applied independently of the natural model. She increasingly dispensed with details and depth perspective in the depiction of her subjects. Areas of colour are now framed by dark contour lines.

End of February/beginning of March stay with Kandinsky in Kochel, mid-June - mid-September in Murnau. On 21 August, she buys a house in Murnau, where she and Kandinsky repeatedly stay and work together until the outbreak of the First World War. During these years, she was inspired by Bavarian and Bohemian reverse glass painting and regional folk art. Münter joins the "New Munich Artists' Association", which is founded in the same year and exhibits together for the first time in December.

The "New Munich Artists' Association" splits. Münter belongs to the circle of artists around the "Der Blaue Reiter" editorial team founded by Kandinsky and Franz Marc. She exhibits together with the "Der Blaue Reiter" (18.12.1911-1 January 1912, Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, Munich) and participates in the almanac "Der Blaue Reiter"

Participation in the First German Autumn Salon, Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin

At the outbreak of the First World War, Münter and Kandinsky emigrated to Switzerland. Kandinsky returns to Moscow in November

From January to July in Munich and Berlin. On 3 July Münter leaves Germany and travels via Copenhagen to Sweden, where she lives mainly in Stockholm. In the winter of 1915/16 (Dec. 1915-March 1916) Münter and Kandinsky see each other for the last time in Stockholm

In December 1917 Münter moved to Copenhagen, where she lived until the beginning of 1920

Return to Germany at the beginning of 1920. The 1920s were a time of artistic and psychological crisis for Münter. Kandinsky had married in 1917 without telling the artist. She lives mainly in Berlin, Munich, Murnau and Cologne

Stay in Paris and trip to the south of France with her new partner Johannes Eichner. Münter receives new impulses and returns to an expressive style of painting. This is followed by a phase of vital artistic creativity, during which she mainly creates landscapes and interiors

Münter settles in Murnau for good

Withdrawal and reduction of artistic production during the Second World War

In the late 1940s and the 1950s, Münter created still lifes of flowers in particular. In 1957, Münter donated the works still in her possession by Kandinsky and other members of the "Blauer Reiter" as well as her own works to the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus in Munich.

Participation in the 25th Venice Biennale

Participation in documenta I in Kassel.

Gabriele Münter dies at her home in Murnau. Her work is exhibited internationally and nationally many times in the following years, most recently in a retrospective at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (10.2017-04.2018)

1956

"Kunstpreis der Stadt München für Malerei",

1957

"Goldene Ehrenmünze der Landeshauptstadt München",

1957

"Grosses Verdienstkreuz des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland",

1908

"Gabriele Münter: Gemälde", Salon Lenoble, Köln, Germany

1913

"Gabriele Münter", Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, Germany

1913

"Gabriele Münter. Kollektivausstellung", Der Neue Kunstsalon Max Dietzel, München, Germany

1915

"35. Ausstellung: Gabriele Münter", Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, Germany

1916

"Kollektiv utställning. Münter", Carl Gummesons Konsthandel, Stockholm, Sweden

1919

"Gabriele Münter - Kandinsky", København Ny Kunstsal, Kopenhagen, Denmark

1920

"Gabriele Münter: Gemälde und Zeichnungen", Moderne Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, München, Germany

1930

"Gabriele Münter: Kollektivausstellung", Galerie Rudolf Wiltschek, Berlin, Germany

1933

"Gabriele Münter 1908-1933", Paul-Modersohn-Becker-Haus (Wanderausstellung bis 1935), Bremen, Germany

1949

"Gabriele Münter. Werke aus fünf Jahrzehnten", Kunstverein Braunschweig, Kunsthalle Bremen, Suermondt-Museum, Aachen, weitere Stationen, Germany

1951

"Paula Modernsoh-Becker - Gabriele Münter", Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany

1957

"Kandinsky und Gabriele Münter. Werke aus fünf Jahrzehnten", Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Kunstverein Hamburg, München, Hambureg, Germany

1961

"Gabriele Münter", Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

1962

"Gabriele Münter 1877-1962", Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München, Germany

1966

"Gabriele Münter 1877 to 1962: Fifty years of her Art", Leonard Hutton Galleries, New York, Germany

1967

"Gabriele Münter. Gedächtnisausstellung", Heidelberger Kunstverein; Württemberger Kunstverein; Westfälischer Kunstverein, Heidelberg; Stuttgard; Münster, Germany

1969

"Gabriele Münter: Ölbilder und Graphik", Galerie Gunzenhauser, München, Germany

1971

"Münter. Frühe Ölbilder", Galerie Gunzenhauser, München, Germany

1972

"Gabriele Münter: Aquarelle und Handzeichnungen", Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany

1976

"Gabriele Münter 1877-1962. Zeichnungen, Gemälde, Hintergalsbilder und Volkskunst aus ihrem Besitz", Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München, Germany

1977

"Gabriele Münter: Ölbilder, Holzschnitte", Galerie Gunzenhauser, München, Germany

1980

"Gabriele Münter. Between Munich and Murnau", Busch-Reisinger-Museum; Princeton Univercity Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass.; Princeton, N.Y., USA

1992

"Gabriele Münter 1877-1962. Retrospektive", Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Schirn Kunsthalle; Liljevalchs Konsthall, München, Frankfurt, Stockholm,

2017

"Gabriele Münter: Malen ohne Umschweife", Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Museum Ludwig, München; Humlebæk; Köln,

2022

""Und morgen nach Murnau": Meisterwerke von Gabriele Münter und Wassily Kandinsky aus Privatsammlungen", Schloßmuseum Murnau, Murnau, Germany

2023

"Gabriele Münter: Retrospektive", Leopold Museum, Wien, Austria

2023

"Gabriele Münter: Menschenbilder", Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus; Bucerius Kunstforum, München; Hamburg, Germany

2024

"Gabriele Münter. The Great Expressionist Woman Painter", Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid, Madrid, Spain

2025

"Gabriele Münter I Malen ohne Umschweife", Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France

1917

"Föreningen Svenka Konstnärinnor - Vereinigung Bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs", Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

1917

"58. Ausstellung: Gösta Adrian-Nilsson, Paul Klee, Gabriele Münter: Gemälde und Aquarelle, Zeichnungen", Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin, Germany

1954

"Kandinsky, Marc, Münter. Unbekannte Werke", Moderne Galerie Otto Stangl; Folkwang Museum, Essen; Kunsthalle Bremen, München, Essen, Bremen, Germany

2022

"Making modernism : Paula Modersohn-Becker, Käthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter, Marianne Werefkin", Royal Academy of Art, London, Great Britain

2024

"Der Blaue Reiter. Eine neue Sprache", Lenbachhaus München, München, Germany

2024

"Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and The Blue Rider", Tate Modern, London, Germany

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