- Gabriele Münter
Gabriele Münter (1877–1962) was a German
expressionist painter who was at the forefront of theMunich avant-garde in the early 20th century.Life and work
Gabriele Münter was born in
Berlin and showed an interest in art from a young age. She received private tuition in drawing and attended the local Women Artists' School, as she was unable to enroll in the German art academies because she was female. Münter left Berlin to attend the progressive Phalanx School in Munich. There she studiedsculpture ,printmaking andpainting and in 1902 began a very intimate and personal relationship with the School directorWassily Kandinsky ; they were later engaged to be married. In 1911 they founded the avant-garde expressionist group known asDer Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider) group.During
World War I the couple left Germany to take refuge inSwitzerland , but since Kandinsky was Russian he was forced to return toMoscow in 1914. He divorced and remarried while in Russia and never saw Münter again. She returned to Germany following the war but was relatively inactive in the arts again until the 1920s.During
World War II she hidKandinsky 's works and those of other members of the Blue Rider from theNazis . She died in 1962 inMurnau am Staffelsee .References
*National Museum of Women in the Arts. [http://www.nmwa.org/collection/profile.asp?LinkID=620 Gabriele Münter]
External links
* [http://www.ludorff.com/ap/muenter/muentere.html Available Works & Biography] Galerie Ludorff, Duesseldorf, Germany
* [http://www.db-artmag.de/04/e/magazin-muenter.php Article with photographs]
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