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Gebirgslandschaft mit Bachlauf, 1920er Jahre
Oil on cardboard
45 × 33,1 cm
Verso: Stempel: GABRIELE MÜNTER NACHLASS, Nachlassetikett: L 179, Briefmarkenetikett in Blau: Nr. 694
Provenance:
Atelier der Künstlerin
Nachlass der Künstlerin (Nr. L. 179)
Gabriele Münter- und Johannes Eichner-Stiftung
Galerie Otto Stangl, München
Galerie Blaeser, Düsseldorf
Privatsammlung, Hannover (seit 1976)
Nachlass der Künstlerin (Nr. L. 179)
Gabriele Münter- und Johannes Eichner-Stiftung
Galerie Otto Stangl, München
Galerie Blaeser, Düsseldorf
Privatsammlung, Hannover (seit 1976)
Literature:
Annegret Hoberg, Helmut Friedel (Hrsg.), Gabriele Münter: 1877-1962. Retrospektive. Ausst.-Kat. Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, München; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, München 1992, S. 294.
19.02.1877
Born in Berlin
1897
Drawing lessons at a private ladies' art school in Düsseldorf, which she had to give up due to her mother's illness and death.
1898 - 1900
Stay in the USA until October 1900
1901
Moves to Munich. Starts studying at the Ladies' Academy of the Artists' Association
1902
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.
1903
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
1906/07
Stay in Paris together with Kandinsky
1908
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.
1909
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.
1911
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"
1913
Participation in the First German Autumn Salon, Galerie Der Sturm, Berlin
1914
At the outbreak of the First World War, Münter and Kandinsky emigrated to Switzerland. Kandinsky returns to Moscow in November
1915/16
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
1917
In December 1917 Münter moved to Copenhagen, where she lived until the beginning of 1920
1920 - 1929
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
1929/30
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
1931
Münter settles in Murnau for good
1939 - 1945
Withdrawal and reduction of artistic production during the Second World War
1945 - 1962
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.
1950
Participation in the 25th Venice Biennale
1955
Participation in documenta I in Kassel.
19.05.1962
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
"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
"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