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*1877 Berlin / Germany - †1920 Murnau am Staffelsee / Germany

Gabriele Münter was a leading proponent of German Expressionism and a close ally of the artist group 'Der Blaue Reiter'. The time she spent in Murnau with her companion Wassily Kandinsky was among the most fertile periods of her oeuvre. Reduction of form and clear colour contrasts are also the hallmarks of the portraits of her artist friends Marianne von Werefkin, Alexej von Jawlensky, Franz Marc and August Macke, for whom she became a sort of chronicler of the group 'Der Blaue Reiter'. Her mysterious still lifes also feature the products of religious artisan craftwork and reverse glass paintings that they collected. Münter spent the period during and after World War I in Scandinavia. In 1930, Münter returned to her home in Murnau with her second life partner, Johannes Eichner; she would live and work there until her death in 1962. Münter gifted the Lenbachhaus in Munich more than 1000 works by „Blauer Reiter“ artists and made the „Blue Land“, the landscape around Murnau where she lived, famous. The Gabriele Münter and Johannes Eichner Foundation preserves and manages her estate.