Picture "Portrait Marianne von Werefkin" (1909), framed
Picture "Portrait Marianne von Werefkin" (1909), framed
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reproduction on LuxoArtVelvet paper | framed | passe-partout | size approx. 77.5 x 56 cm (h/w)
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Picture "Portrait Marianne von Werefkin" (1909), framed
Gabriele Münter portrays her fellow artist Marianne von Werefkin in this painting from 1909. Together they were members of the "Neue Künstlervereinigung München", from which the Blue Rider emerged.
Original: Oil on cardboard. Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich.
4-colour reproduction on LuxoArt velvet paper. Size of motif 59 x 37.5 cm (h/w) Framed in a silver solid wood frame with bevel cut passe-partout. Size approx. 77.5 x 56 cm (h/w). © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2017.
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About Gabriele Münter
1877-1962
Gabriele Münter was an Expressionist painter and a member of the New Munich Artists' Association but did not belong to the Blaue Reiter movement.
Gabriele Münter became known as Wassily Kandinsky's companion. She saved a significant part of his works through the war and post-war period and later made them known to the public, together with paintings by artist friends of the Blaue Reiter and her own works.
When Gabriele Münter bought a house in Murnau in 1909, which she lived in during the summer with her partner Kandinsky, the idyllically situated domicile soon developed into a centre of the avant-garde. Marc, Macke and Werefkin, Jawlensky were regular guests. They all found much inspiration for their artistic work in the area around the Staffelsee – art history likes to describe these years surrounding the founding of the Blaue Reiter as the "Murnau period".
With the beginning of the First World War and the separation from Kandinsky, turbulent years followed for Münter. In 1931, she moved to Murnau for good. The landscape in the foothills of the Bavarian Alps plays a major role in her work from this period, as it did at the beginning of the century. When Münter died in Murnau in 1962, she had long been considered, along with Paula Modersohn-Becker, the most important Expressionist painter.
Artistic movement that replaced Impressionism in the early 20th century.
Expressionism is the German form of the art revolution in painting, graphic art and sculpture, with its precursors found in the works of Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Gauguin at the end of the 19th century. The expressionists sought to reach the fundamental elements of painting. Using vibrant, unbroken colours in large areas, emphasising lines, and aiming for suggestive expressiveness, they fought against the artistic taste established by the bourgeoisie.
The most important representatives of Expressionism were the founders of "Die Brücke": Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Pechstein, Otto Mueller and Franz Marc, August Macke and others.
Masters of Viennese Expressionism are Egon Schiele and Oskar Kokoschka. Among sculptors, Ernst Barlach is the most famous.
Fauvism is the French form of Expressionism.